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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

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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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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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Do not scorn little victories.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
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Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Let the dead bury the dead. There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
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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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The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
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The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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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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Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
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Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
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Only fools don't contradict themselves
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