Andre Gide

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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

Andre Gide

age

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Andre Gide

alone

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

art

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Andre Gide

art

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

Andre Gide

art

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

Andre Gide

art

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

Andre Gide

art

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

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beauty

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

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beauty

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Andre Gide

change

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