Andr� Gide
France
22 Nov 1869 // 19 Feb 1951
Writer
22 Nov 1869 // 19 Feb 1951
Writer
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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 that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age
The color of truth is gray
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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