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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.
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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
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Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
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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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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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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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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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