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

Andre Gide

Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDE

Age Habit Live Resolution
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Compliment Expression Man Silly
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDE

Art Human Labor Masterpiece Overcome Resistance
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDE

Answer Console Insult People
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDE

Except Objective Path Straight Travel
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
ANDRE GIDE

Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDE

Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Motivational Respect Rose Thorn Want
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDE

Achievement Depend God

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