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Andre Gide

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

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"Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding."

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"History develops, art stands still."

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"To catch a husband is an art; to hold him is a job."

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"You do not need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to write an emotional poet, because poetry is beyond hooks and holes."

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"The basis of art is truth, both in matter and in mode."

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"Music heals all forms of misery."

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"Modernity is the transient, the fleeting, the contingent; it is one half of art, the other being the eternal and the immovable."

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

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"The man can neither make, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."

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"The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."

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"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious."
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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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"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."
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"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."
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"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."
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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."
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""Therefore" is a word the poet must not know."
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"There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them."
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"Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding."
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"Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling."
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