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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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Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair ready to get up, to leave.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.
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The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.
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The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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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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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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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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One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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