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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.
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Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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