Gide Quotes
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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
She already loved me too much to see me as I was.
— Andre Gide
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
— 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
Existing is occupation enough. — 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
There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.
— Andre Gide
He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
— 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
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
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
Solitude is bearable only with God.
— Andre Gide
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
— 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
Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.
— Andre Gide
The self requires a story.
— Andre Gide
Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
— 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
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
— Andre Gide
The color of truth is grey.
— 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
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
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
are my light and you gide my way
— Erin Hunter
Only fools don't contradict themselves
— 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
