Andre Gide Quotes - Page 10

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• To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

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  Wise, Past, Degrees

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• Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.

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  Sometimes, Vow, Resolution

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• So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

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  Inspirational, Honesty, Integrity

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• Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?

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  Empathy, Sound, Apathy

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• Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

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  Complaining, Useless

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• An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.

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  Mind, Prejudice, World

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• Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.

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  Drunk, Becoming, Emotion

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• It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

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  Age, Becoming, Virtue

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• To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

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  Heart, Bruises, Claims

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• Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

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  Arms, Able, Settling

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• Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

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  Profound, Optimism, Sides

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• One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.

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  Devil, Lasts, Conversation

  "Andre Gide Journals 1889-1949". Book by André Gide, 1917.

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• There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

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  Art, Overcoming, Doe

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

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  Honor, Age, Literature

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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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  God, Lying, Convince

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• The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

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  Men, Race, Individuality

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• An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

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  Important, Trying, Doe

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.14, Routledge

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• Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

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  Amplify, Argument, Quarrels

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• What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

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  Mind, Elements, Elude

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• 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.

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  Goes On, Literature, Use

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

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• The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.

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  Mean, Laughing, Suffering

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• Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!

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  Beautiful, Regret, Fall

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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.

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  Artist, Acclaim, Nothing New

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.306, Routledge

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• It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands.

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  Fall, Army, Gun

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• The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.

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  Nature, Elements, Return

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.38, Routledge

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