Quote

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.

Andre Gide

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
Author
Autobiographer
Diarist
Essayist
Film Producer
Journalist
Novelist
Playwright
Prosaist
Translator
Travel Writer
Writer
Paris
France
André Paul Guillaume Gide
Andre Gide
Andre Paul Guillaume Gide
Lose
Loses
Write
Book
Writing
Admirers
Admirer
Previous
Gained

More quotes by Andre Gide

Image
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
Andre Gide
Image
The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
Andre Gide
Image
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
Andre Gide
Image
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
Image
Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
Andre Gide
Image
There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
Andre Gide
Image
The capacity to get free is nothing the capacity to be free is the task.
Andre Gide
Image
They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.
Andre Gide
Image
There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.
Andre Gide
Image
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
Image
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
Andre Gide
Image
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
Andre Gide
Image
The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
Andre Gide
Image
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
Andre Gide
Image
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Andre Gide
Image
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
Andre Gide
Image
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
Andre Gide
Image
Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
Andre Gide
Image
Sadness is a state of sin.
Andre Gide
Image
Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
Andre Gide