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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
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 most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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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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Understand that the only possession of any value is life.
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If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
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Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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