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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.
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The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
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Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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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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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
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If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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