Andre Gide Quotes - Page 5

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• The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

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  Tasks, Capacity

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• The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

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  Hatred, Broads, Nations

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• Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.

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  Men, Numbers, Independence

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• 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.

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  Love, Hate, Men

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• Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

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  Thinking, Found

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• One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.

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  Acceptance, Overcoming

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• Long only for what you have.

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  Long

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• In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.

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  Country, Order, Judging

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.277, Routledge

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• We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

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  Joy, Mind, Needs

  "Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality". Book by André Gide, edited by Justin O'Brien, 1964.

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• If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.

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  Writing, Young Writers, Refrain

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• I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

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  Love, Flower, Hands

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• I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.

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  Hate, Hatred, Profit

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• I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

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  Use, Sensations

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• The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.

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  Christian, Doe, Orthodoxy

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• The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

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  Stupid, Intelligent, Men

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• Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

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  Change, Struggle, Evil

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• Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

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  Stupid, Silly, Men

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

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  Punishment, Tasks, Hell

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• If life were organized, there would be no need for art.

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  Art, Would Be, Needs

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• Prejudices are the props of civilization.

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  Civilization, Justice, Prejudice

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.10, Vintage

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• It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

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  Leadership, Patience, Peace

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• Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.

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  Spiritual, Art, Creative Collaboration

  "The Millionaire Rig Veda" by Timothy James Brearton, (p. 40), 2012.

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• A work of art is an exaggeration.

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  Art, Art Is, Exaggeration

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• The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

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  Character, Voice, Novelists

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• Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

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  Sympathy, Real, Great Men

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