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True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
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 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
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
Andre Gide
A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
Andre Gide
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andre Gide
The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
Andre Gide
Pay attention only to the form emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
Andre Gide
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
Andre Gide
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
Andre Gide
Whither should we aim if not towards God?
Andre Gide
There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
Andre Gide
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
Andre Gide
To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.
Andre Gide
Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
Andre Gide
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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
Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
Andre Gide
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
Andre Gide
To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
Andre Gide
Do not scorn little victories.
Andre Gide
It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.
Andre Gide
