Andre Gide Quotes
A French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947.
(1869 - 1951)
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"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
[Poetry]
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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
[Concentration]
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A work of art is an exaggeration.
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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.
[Art]
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
[Art]
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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles- wrinkles that my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
[Experience]
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands upon others.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs to life under a sting even better than under a caress.
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If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.
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If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
[Youth]
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