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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

Andre Gide
Writing, Literature, Produce

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

Andre Gide
People, Interesting, Individual

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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Faith, Mean, Use
Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.196, Vintage

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

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Writing, Noble, Literature
Letter to François Mauriac, 1929.

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

Andre Gide
Respect, Differences, Generations
Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.93, Routledge

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

Andre Gide
Believe, Able, Circumstances
Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.286, Routledge

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

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Action, Profit, Motive
"The Immoralist". Book by André Gide. Translated by R. Howard, 1902.

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

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Giving Up, Age, Imagine

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

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Jobs, People
Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.450, Vintage

Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

Andre Gide
Life, May, Fresh Start

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
Broken Heart, Breakup, Thinking