Andre Gide Quotes
Top 100 wise famous quotes and sayings by Andre Gide
Andre Gide Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
The belief that becomes truth for me ... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
If your target as a Muslim artist, writer or speaker is to target only Muslims you need to rethink your plan.
How would one tell a story about happiness? One can only tell of the origins of happiness and its destruction.
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene
a moment's forgetfulness suffice.
a moment's forgetfulness suffice.
What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.
For what use is it to forbid what we can't prevent? If books are forbidden, children read them on the sly.
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?
I am not sure whether I altogether understand you. You make me curious. I don't much care about talking, but I should like to talk to you.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back & beginning all over again.
Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
People don't want to be like themselves. They all choose a model to imitate, or if they don't choose a model themselves, they accept one ready-made.
And who shall say how many passions and how many hostile thoughts may live together in the mind of man?
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
It's madness to envy other people's happiness. Happiness doesn't come of the peg, it has to be made to measure.
You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
Knowing how to free oneself is nothing; the difficult thing is knowing how to live with that freedom.
Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.
Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
Oh," I thought, "without a doubt, everything in my life is falling to pieces. Nothing that my hand grasps can my hand hold.
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.