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One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word. — Andre Gide

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. — Andre Gide

Understanding is the beginning of approving. — Andre Gide

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves. — Andre Gide

I love life enough to prefer to live it awake. — Andre Gide

It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself. — Andre Gide

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. — Andre Gide

She already loved me too much to see me as I was. — Andre Gide

Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines. — Andre Gide

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. — Andre Gide

I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts. — Andre Gide

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. — Andre Gide

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. — Andre Gide

The only real education comes from what goes counter to you. — Andre Gide

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written. — Andre Gide

The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many. — Andre Gide

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer. — Andre Gide

Sadness is a state of sin. — Andre Gide

Everyone was good at talking about day-to-day events, but no one ever looked at what motivated them. — Andre Gide

What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. — Andre Gide

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward. — Andre Gide

Existing is occupation
enough. — Andre Gide

The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh. — Andre Gide

The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized. — Andre Gide

I have also tailored my happiness to fit,' I cried out. 'But I have grown, and now my happiness is too tight. Sometimes it almost strangles me ... — Andre Gide

True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others. — Andre Gide

I cannot," said he, "expect everyone to have my virtues. It's good enough to meet with my vices ... — Andre Gide

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it. — Andre Gide

I had forgotten I was alone; I sat there, waiting for nothing, oblivious to the time. — Andre Gide

There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is. — Andre Gide

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. — Andre Gide

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others. — Andre Gide

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship. — Andre Gide

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime. — Andre Gide

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves. — Andre Gide

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. — Andre Gide

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. — Andre Gide

Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again. — Andre Gide

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices. — Andre Gide

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. — Andre Gide

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know. — Andre Gide

Nothing excellent can be done without leisure. — Andre Gide

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant. — Andre Gide

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. — Andre Gide

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone. — Andre Gide

The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy. — Andre Gide

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age. — Andre Gide

In a world in which everyone cheats, it's the honest man who passes for a charlatan. — Andre Gide

Solitude is bearable only with God. — Andre Gide

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again. — Andre Gide

Oh," I thought, "without a doubt, everything in my life is falling to pieces. Nothing that my hand grasps can my hand hold. — Andre Gide

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom — Andre Gide

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved. — Andre Gide

Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do. — Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. — Andre Gide

The self requires a story. — Andre Gide

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. — Andre Gide

My eyes filled with tears and I wept long and hard, unable, and unwilling, to stop. — Andre Gide

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions. — Andre Gide

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

So as long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity. — Andre Gide

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases. — Andre Gide

Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it. — Andre Gide

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation — Andre Gide

He let Julius go. There was beginning to rise in him a feeling of profound disgust
a kind of hatred almost, of himself, of Julius, of everything. — Andre Gide

It is now, and in this world, that we must live. — Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable. — Andre Gide

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. — Andre Gide

Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us. — Andre Gide

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black. — Andre Gide

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. — Andre Gide

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. — Andre Gide

The color of truth is grey. — Andre Gide

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up. — Andre Gide

One imagines one possesses and in reality one is possessed. — Andre Gide

What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it. — Andre Gide

Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them. — Andre Gide

There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens. — Andre Gide

If life were organized, there would be no need for art. — Andre Gide

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. — Andre Gide

When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything. — Andre Gide

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature. — Andre Gide

We who would seek new land must be willing to sacrifice the sight of shore for a long, long time. — Andre Gide

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one. — Andre Gide

The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image. — Andre Gide

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age. — Andre Gide

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest. — Andre Gide

It's madness to envy other people's happiness. Happiness doesn't come of the peg, it has to be made to measure. — Andre Gide

You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else. — Andre Gide

Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man. — Andre Gide

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else. — Andre Gide

Only fools don't contradict themselves — Andre Gide

By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked. — Andre Gide

In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring ... — Andre Gide

And who shall say how many passions and how many hostile thoughts may live together in the mind of man? — Andre Gide

One completely overcomes only what one assimilates. — Andre Gide

Dare to be yourself — Andre Gide

Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice. — Andre Gide

Knowing how to free oneself is nothing; the difficult thing is knowing how to live with that freedom. — Andre Gide

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. — Andre Gide