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

Quote by Andre Gide

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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for...

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for...

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that...

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that...

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in...

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in...

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible...

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible...

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than...

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back...

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back...

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre...

It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre...

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

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

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

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

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

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

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for...

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for...

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another...

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another...

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that...

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that...