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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
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Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
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