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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Andre Gide
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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
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
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
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
Andre Gide
The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
Andre Gide
You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
Andre Gide
Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
Andre Gide
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
Andre Gide
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
Andre Gide
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
Andre Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide
When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
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
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
Andre Gide
Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant make the sheaths crack push aside the stakes to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.
Andre Gide
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
Andre Gide
