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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
Andre Gide
I owe much to my friends but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Andre Gide
Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
Andre Gide
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
Andre Gide
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
Andre Gide
Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
Andre Gide
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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
Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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
The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
Andre Gide
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide
The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
Andre Gide
The world will be saved by one or two people.
Andre Gide
The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
Andre Gide
If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.
Andre Gide
Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
Andre Gide
I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.
Andre Gide
There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
Andre Gide
The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb it repulses.
Andre Gide
