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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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Sadness is a state of sin.
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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