Andre Gide Quotes - Page 9

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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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• 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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• The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

  Andre Gide

  Jobs, People

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.450, Vintage

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• Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

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  Life, May, Fresh Start

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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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• I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

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  Children, Young, Advise

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• The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

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  Gold, Pieces, Empty

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.27, Routledge

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• The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

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  Art, Serenity, Rising

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.14, Routledge

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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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• 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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• We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us

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  Running, Risk, Portraits

  Andre Gide (2012). “Lafcadio's Adventures: A Novel”, p.226, 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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• God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

  Andre Gide

  Literature, Depends

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• Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

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  Jealousy, Hate, Home

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• Whither should we aim if not towards God?

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  Should, Aim, Ifs

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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 loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

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  Men, Creation Of Man, Would Be

  "The Immoralist".

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• True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

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  Kindness, Empathy, Joy

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.281, Routledge

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• To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

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  Wise, Past, Degrees

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• The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

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  Nature, Literature, Trembling

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• We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

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  Truth, Honesty, Fighting

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.159, Routledge

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• The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

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  Wisdom, Intelligence, Suffering

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• The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.

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  Effort, Paradise, Sin

  "Andre Gide Journals 1889-1949". Book by André Gide, Detached Pages, 1913.

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• An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

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  Mind, Prejudice, World

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