Andre Gide Quotes - Page 9

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• It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

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  Age, Becoming, Virtue

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• The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

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  Broken Heart, Breakup, Thinking

  "The Journals of André Gide: 1914-1927". 1951.

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• An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

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  Art, Age, Doe

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.51, Routledge

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• Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

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  Motivational, Change, Fall

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• If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use

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  Flower, Men, Worry

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• Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

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  Action, Profit, Motive

  "The Immoralist". Book by André Gide. Translated by R. Howard, 1902.

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• 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.

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  Giving Up, Age, Imagine

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• Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.

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  Drunk, Becoming, Emotion

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• To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

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  Heart, Bruises, Claims

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• I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

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  Joy, Defiance

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• I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

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  Believe, Able, Circumstances

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.286, Routledge

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• Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

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  Age, Youth, Chaste

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• I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by those among the characters on whom they will have had any effect. I would like those events, in the account they will make of them, to appear slightly distorted; a kind of interest stems, for the reader, from the simple fact that he should need to restore. The story requires his collaboration in order to properly take shape.

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  Reading, Character, Simple

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• The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

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  Memorable, People, Listening

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• Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

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  Complaining, Useless

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• It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

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  Writing, Noble, Literature

  Letter to François Mauriac, 1929.

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• Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.

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  Men, Greatest Victory, Victory

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• Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

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  Block, Remembered

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• Sadness is a state of sin.

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  Sadness, Sin, States

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• The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

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  Faith, Mean, Use

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.196, Vintage

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• Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

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  Atheism, Doe, Influence

  "Journals". Translated by Justin O'Brien, January 13, 1929.

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• I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

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  Distance, Eye, Past

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• The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

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  Artist, Greatness, Obstacles

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.54, Routledge

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• Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

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  Respect, Differences, Generations

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.93, Routledge

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• It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

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  Men, Moderation, Restraint

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