| ANDRE GIDE |
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| �Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.�
�Fish die belly-upward and rise to the surface; it is their way of falling.� �It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.� �Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar that wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.� �The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say--because they were too obvious.� �The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.� �Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.� (The Fruits of the Earth) �You cannot discover new oceans, unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.� |