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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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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
Andre Gide
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
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The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
Andre Gide
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
Andre Gide
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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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
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Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Andre Gide
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
Andre Gide
The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.
Andre Gide
I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
Andre Gide
Though a revolution may call itself national, it always marks the victory of a single party.
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