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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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André Paul Guillaume Gide
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More quotes by Andre Gide
Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
Andre Gide
Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
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
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
Andre Gide
Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
Andre Gide
To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
Andre Gide
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide
They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
Andre Gide
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Andre Gide
Envying another man's happiness is madness you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
Andre Gide
Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
Andre Gide
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Andre Gide
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Andre Gide
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.
Andre Gide
The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady one can pity someone who is suffering someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
Andre Gide
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 greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
Andre Gide
A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.
Andre Gide
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
Andre Gide
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Andre Gide
