Quotes by André Gide

André Gide

André Gide

French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947)

Lived from: 1869 - 1951

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagFrance

Born: 22 november 1869 Died: 19 february 1951

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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.
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  • Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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  • Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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  • 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.
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  • Not everyone can be an orphan.
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  • Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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  • Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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  • 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.
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  • Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
    Original: Les choses les plus belles sont celles que souffle la folie et qu'écrit la raison.
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  • Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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  • The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
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  • The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
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  • The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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  • The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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  • There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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  • There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
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