Andre Gide

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. ↗

— Andre Gide

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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions. ↗

— Andre Gide

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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling. ↗

— Andre Gide

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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. ↗

— Andre Gide

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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. ↗

— Andre Gide

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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. ↗

— Andre Gide

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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. ↗

— Andre Gide

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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. ↗

— Andre Gide

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What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. ↗

— Andre Gide

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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. ↗

— Andre Gide

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