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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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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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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
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Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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