Andre Gide Quotes

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• Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

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  Communication, Learning, Knowledge

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• It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

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  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Counterfeiters". Book by Andre Gide, 1925.

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• When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.

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  Care, Communism, Take Care

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

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  Men, Intelligent, Modest

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.280, Routledge

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• The color of truth is gray.

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  Color, Intellectual, Intelligence

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• It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.

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  Doors, Law, Tragedy

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• He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.

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  Respect, Rose, Wildflowers

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• Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

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  Art, Overcoming, Resistance

  "Poétique". Book by André Gide, 1947.

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

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  Life, Long, Doe

  "If It Die". Book by André Gide, ch. III, 1924.

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• The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

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  Truth, Lying, Hypocrite

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.427, Vintage

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• Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

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  Memories, Miserable, Money Can't Buy Happiness

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• A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

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  Butterfly, Know Thyself, Caterpillars

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

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  Wise, Kindness, Helping Others

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

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• Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.

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  Done, Leisure, Excellent

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

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  People, Opinion, Occasions

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.280, Routledge

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• Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.

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  Fear, Cowardice, Worst

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• Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

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  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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• The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

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  Beautiful, Writing, Madness

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• Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

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  Love, Cute, Beautiful

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• Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

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  Life, Soul, Sin

  "La Symphonie Pastorale". Book by André Gide, 1919.

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• Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.

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  Thinking, Found

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• There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

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  Doors, Law

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• Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

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  Sadness, Self Pity, Misery

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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.

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  Life, Work, Failure

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