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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
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
Andre Gide
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
Andre Gide
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
Andre Gide
Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
Andre Gide
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Andre Gide
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide
The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
Andre Gide
Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
Andre Gide
It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
Andre Gide
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
Andre Gide
Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
Andre Gide
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide
Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
Andre Gide
To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
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
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
Andre Gide
A work of art is an exaggeration.
Andre Gide
Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
Andre Gide
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 my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
Andre Gide
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Andre Gide
