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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
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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.
Andre Gide
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
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Understanding is the beginning of approving.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
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Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
Andre Gide
Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
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The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
Andre Gide
One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
Andre Gide
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
