Andre Gide Quotes - Page 11

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• The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

  Andre Gide

  Artist, Acclaim, Nothing New

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.306, Routledge

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• Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

  Andre Gide

  Believe, Sleep, Night

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