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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
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
What seems different in yourself that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
Andre Gide
It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.
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
Faith can move mountains true: mountains of stupidity.
Andre Gide
Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
Andre Gide
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
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
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
Andre Gide
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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
An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
Andre Gide
Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.
Andre Gide
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
Andre Gide
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide
It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
Andre Gide
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
Andre Gide
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 intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
Andre Gide
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
Andre Gide
It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
Andre Gide
