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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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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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The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.
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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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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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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.
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The bad novelist constructs his characters he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act he hears their voices even before he knows them.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
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Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
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To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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