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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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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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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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I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
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