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Andre Gide
Quotes by Andre Gide
Quotes by Andre Gide
“A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.”
Andre Gide
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
Andre Gide
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.”
Andre Gide
“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”
Andre Gide
“One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.”
Andre Gide
“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”
Andre Gide
“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”
Andre Gide
“What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.”
Andre Gide
“Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.”
Andre Gide
“It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.”
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“Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.”
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“There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.”
Andre Gide
“It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.”
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“I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.”
Andre Gide
“Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.”
Andre Gide
“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.”
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“The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.”
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“Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.”
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“It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.”
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“Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.”
Andre Gide
“God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.”
Andre Gide
“Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.”
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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.”
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“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”
Andre Gide
“"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.”
Andre Gide
“What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.”
Andre Gide
“Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.”
Andre Gide
“It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.”
Andre Gide
“Sin is whatever obscures the soul.”
Andre Gide
“The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.”
Andre Gide
