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Authors
Andre Gide
French
Novelist
About the author
"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Word
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Fear
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Soul
#Sin
The color of truth is gray.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Truth
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Reason
#Madness
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Life
#Actions
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Past
#Today
#Mind
#Loyalty
#Beauty
#Tomorrow
#Joy
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Past
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Want
#Life
#Logic
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Work
#Evil
#Change
#Struggle
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Work
#Art
#Prejudice
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Idea
#Writer
#Company
#Travel
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
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,
French
Novelist
#Obvious
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,
French
Novelist
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Happiness
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Art
#Serenity
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#God
#Art
#Artist
#Collaboration
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#God
#Art
#Artist
#Collaboration
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Truth
#Doubt
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Possession
#Giving
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Beginning
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Fish
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#God
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
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,
French
Novelist
#Life
#Friends
#Enemies
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Hell
#Punishment
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
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.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Peace
#Men
#Passion
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.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#People
#Difficulty
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#People
#Succeed
#Adventure
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Honor
#Age
#Middle age
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,
French
Novelist
#Ugly
#Development
#Maxim
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#God
#Man
#Men
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Quarrels
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Work
#Rest
#Theory
Not everyone can be an orphan.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Nothing
#Being
#Man
#Expression
#Silly
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Nothing
#Memory
#Happiness
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Love
#Old
#Pity
#Beauty
#Prayer
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Time
#Sight
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Reason
#Madness
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide,
French
Novelist
#Art
#Labor