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Quote by André Gide
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it

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

Other quotes by André Gide

In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself. РAndr̩ Gide

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Self-Discovery
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. РAndr̩ Gide

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Art
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Novelists… fashioning nets to sustain and support the reader as he falls helplessly through the chaos of his own existence. – Fay Weldon

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An author in his book must be like God in the universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere. – Gustave Flaubert

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Writing

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is a curious anticlimax. – Alfred Kazin, Think, February 1963

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Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason. They made no such demand upon those who wrote them. – Charles Caleb Colton

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Actors work and slave and it is the color of your hair that can determine your fate in the end. – Helen Hayes

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In real love you want the other persons good. In romantic love you want the other person. – Margaret Anderson

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The Arab World is writing a new future the pen is in our own hands. – Abdallah II

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