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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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With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
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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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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my 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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
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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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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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