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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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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God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
Andre Gide
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.
Andre Gide
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Andre Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
Andre Gide
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Andre Gide
The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
Andre Gide
A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
Andre Gide
Long only for what you have.
Andre Gide
Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.
Andre Gide
If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
Andre Gide
There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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
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 greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
Andre Gide
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Andre Gide
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
Andre Gide
