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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

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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Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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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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Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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The color of truth is gray.
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The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Long only for what you have.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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