The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts an… - André Gide

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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. Essential to remain between the two, close to madness when you dream and close to reason when you write

André Gide

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About André Gide

André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947.

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Alternative Names: André Paul Guillaume Gide • Andre Gide • Andre Paul Guillaume Gide

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

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George Sand Jean-Paul Sartre Johann Wolfgang von Goethe William Somerset Maugham Anton Chekhov

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Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in us is that which remains unexpressed.

How happy Ménalque is, I thought, since he has nothing! As for me, I am suffering because I want to conserve things. What importance is all this in the end?

Que toute émotion sache te devenir une ivresse. Si ce que tu manges ne te grise pas, c'est que tu n'avais pas assez faim.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. Essential to remain between the two, close to madness when you dream and … - André Gide

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