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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
Andre Gide
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Andre Gide
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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
Christianity, above all, consoles but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
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
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Andre Gide
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Andre Gide
One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
Andre Gide
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
Andre Gide
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
Andre Gide
It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
Andre Gide
Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
Andre Gide
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
Andre Gide
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
Andre Gide
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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
