André Gide

Being Beauty
" To know how to free oneself is nothing "
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André Gide
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" This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene--a moment's forgetfulness suffice. "
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André Gide
Honesty
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" I have always thought that great artists were those who dared to confer the right of beauty on things so natural that people say on seeing them, "Why did I never realize before that that was beautiful too? "
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André Gide
Art , Beauty
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" Do you know why our poetry today and especially our philosophy are such dead issues? Because they've cut themselves off from life. Now, Greece idealized on life's own level: an artist's life was already a poetic achievement; a philosopher's life was an enactment of his philosophy; and when they were a part of life that way, instead of ignoring each other, philosophy could nourish poetry, poetry express philosophy, and together achieve an admirable persuasiveness. Today beauty no longer acts; and action no longer bothers about being beautiful; and wisdom operates on the sidelines. "
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André Gide
Being , Beauty
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André Gide
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22-Nov-1869 19-Feb-1951 Fiction, Autobiography, Moralist Literature Author, Essayist, Playwright
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