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

Quote by Andre Gide

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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations

The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.

The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.

Understanding is the beginning of approving

Understanding is the beginning of approving

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

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

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what...

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what...

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible...

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible...

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding...

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding...

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the...

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the...

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding...

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding...

Prejudices are the props of civilization

Prejudices are the props of civilization

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image....

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image....

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and...

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and...

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.