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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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More quotes by Andre Gide
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
Andre Gide
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
Andre Gide
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
Andre Gide
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Andre Gide
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
Andre Gide
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
Andre Gide
The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage my whole being surges toward the bars.
Andre Gide
Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.
Andre Gide
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Andre Gide
