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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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More quotes by Andre Gide
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
Andre Gide
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
Andre Gide
Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.
Andre Gide
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
Andre Gide
An experience teaches only the good observer but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
Andre Gide
An artist cannot get along without a public and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
Andre Gide
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
Andre Gide
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
Andre Gide
He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
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 abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
Andre Gide
We call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
Andre Gide
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
Andre Gide
Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
Andre Gide
A work of art is an exaggeration.
Andre Gide
When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
Andre Gide
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
Andre Gide
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
Andre Gide
