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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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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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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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Do not scorn little victories.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
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I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
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