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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.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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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.
Andre Gide
The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
Andre Gide
The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.
Andre Gide
An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
Andre Gide
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
Andre Gide
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
Andre Gide
Only fools don't contradict themselves
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
Andre Gide
Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
Andre Gide
Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
Andre Gide
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Andre Gide
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Andre Gide
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood education is an emancipation.
Andre Gide
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Andre Gide
Understanding is the beginning of approving.
Andre Gide
The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
Andre Gide
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
Andre Gide
