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A work of art is an exaggeration.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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
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
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Andre Gide
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
Andre Gide
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
Andre Gide
When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
Andre Gide
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Andre Gide
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Andre Gide
I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
Andre Gide
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
Andre Gide
Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
Andre Gide
Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
Andre Gide
It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
Andre Gide
The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
Andre Gide
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide
The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
Andre Gide
The individual person is more interesting than people in general he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
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
The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
Andre Gide
