Andre Gide Quotes - Page 2

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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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• Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.

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  Christian, Soul, Atheism

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• The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

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  Bores You, Annoyed, Literature

  The journals, 1889-1949. Vol 2. (p. 20), 1956.

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• A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

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  Men, Thinking

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

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  Vices, Virtue, Good Enough

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• Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

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  Men, Society, Subtle

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• Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.

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  Attitude, Book, Writing

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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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• Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

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  Memories, Adversity, Problem

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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 fools don't contradict themselves

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  Fool

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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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• 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.

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  Love Life, Giving, Trying

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• Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

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  Men, Madness, Knows

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• We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

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  Summer, Flower, Lasts

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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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• To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.

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  Freedom, Liberty, Know How

  Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

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  Truth, Lying, Artist

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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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• Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

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  Maturity, Thinking, Judgement

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• Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

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  Fall, Lakes, Sea

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• Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

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  Order, Life Is, Irreplaceable

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• There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

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  Inspirational, Fear, Halloween

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• Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

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  Understanding, Feelings, Capable

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

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  Long, Literature, Bent

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