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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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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
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The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Andre Gide
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
Andre Gide
Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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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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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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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
Andre Gide
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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