“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not
finally overcome.”—French novelist Andre Gide, quoted in The Viking Book of Aphorisms: A Personal Selection,
edited by W. H. Auden and Louis Kronenberger (1962)
Andre Gide,
born on this date in Paris 145 years ago today, won the 1947 Nobel Prize in
Literature.
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