André Gide quotes - page 3

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding. (André Gide)
The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes. View quote
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Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. View quote
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True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others. View quote
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love. View quote
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Let every emotion be capable of becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough. View quote
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It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought just as I did, and that I found in them rather an authorization than an awakening. Above all, they taught me to cease doubting, to cease fearing my thoughts, and to let those thoughts lead me to those lands that were not uninhabitable because after all I found them already there. View quote
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. View quote
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun-warmed, flower-bordered path. View quote
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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. View quote
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Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. (André Gide)
Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?... And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it? View quote
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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring. View quote
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The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they're seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful? View quote
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn. View quote
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. View quote
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. View quote
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. View quote
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The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes. View quote
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation. View quote
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life. (André Gide)
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. View quote
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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. View quote
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. View quote
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it. View quote
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