Andre Gide Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

  Andre Gide

  Wise, Kindness, Helping Others

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.279, Routledge

• Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

  Andre Gide

  Love, Hate, Men

• 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

  Giving Up, Age, Imagine

• What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.

  Andre Gide

  Love Life, Giving, Trying

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