Andre Gide Quotes - Famous Quotes by Andre Gide
Born: 1869-11-22
Died: 1951-02-19
Andre Gide Biography
"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles-wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well 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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Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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 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 admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
- Andre Gide
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