Andre Gide Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

  Andre Gide

  Writing, Noble, Literature

  Letter to François Mauriac, 1929.

• 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

  Happiness, Loyalty, Past

• It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

  Andre Gide

  Long, Literature, Bent

• Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

  Andre Gide

  Writing, Literature, Produce

• What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

  Andre Gide

  Writing, Literature, Stories

  Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.46, Lulu Press, Inc

• Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

  Andre Gide

  Change, Struggle, Evil

• The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

  Andre Gide

  Bores You, Annoyed, Literature

  The journals, 1889-1949. Vol 2. (p. 20), 1956.

• God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

  Andre Gide

  Literature, Depends

• Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Change, Long

• The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

  Andre Gide

  Life, Literature, Action

• 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

  Stars, Wish, Literature

• The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

  Andre Gide

  Nature, Literature, Trembling

• Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

  Andre Gide

  Love, Prayer, Hands

  Journals 1889-1949, 1929.

• Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

  Andre Gide

  Respect, Differences, Generations

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.93, Routledge

• It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.

  Andre Gide

  Honor, Age, Literature

• No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

  Andre Gide

  Goes On, Literature, Use

  "Andre Gide Journals 1889-1949". Book by André Gide, Detached Pages, 1913.

• Not everyone can be an orphan.

  Andre Gide

  Literature, Orphan

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