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

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  Art, Overcoming, Resistance

  "Poétique". Book by André Gide, 1947.

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• Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

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  Clever, Men, Able

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

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  Bores You, Annoyed, Literature

  The journals, 1889-1949. Vol 2. (p. 20), 1956.

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• A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

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  Inspiration, Objectivity, Goal

  "The Journals of André Gide: 1914-1927". 1951.

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• The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.

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  Perseverance, Men, Hands

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.289, Routledge

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• It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

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  Stars, Wish, Literature

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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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  Strength, Art, Doe

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• To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.

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  Philosophical, Soul, Awkward

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• Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

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  Effort, Mind, Genius

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.280, Routledge

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• It is now, and in this world, that we must live.

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  World, This World

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• Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

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  Fall, Lakes, Sea

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• In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

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  People, Bored, Awkward

  Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.60, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

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  Men, Anxiety, Brain

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• Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

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  Thinking, Found

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• In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

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  Punishment, Tasks, Hell

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• The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

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  Christian, Doe, Orthodoxy

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• It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought just as I did, and that I found in them rather an authorization than an awakening. Above all, they taught me to cease doubting, to cease fearing my thoughts, and to let those thoughts lead me to those lands that were not uninhabitable because after all I found them already there .

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  Should Have, Land, Doubt

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.276, Routledge

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• In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

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  Country, Order, Judging

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.277, Routledge

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• Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

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  Men, Society, Subtle

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• The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

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  Games, Path, Beaten

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• He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

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  Demand

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• If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

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  Writing, Young Writers, Refrain

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• It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

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  Love, Pain, Happy Valentines Day

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• The world will be saved by one or two people.

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  Future, Two, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

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  God, Men, Interesting

  Journals 1889-1949: Literature and Ethics, 1901.

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