Andre Gide Quotes - Page 3

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• I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

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  Vices, Virtue, Good Enough

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• Solitude is bearable only with God.

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  Solitude, Bearable

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• Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

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  Memories, Miserable, Money Can't Buy Happiness

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• It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

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  Succeed, Failing, Favourite

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• In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

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  Happiness, Past, Order

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• Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.

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  Spring, Worst

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.315, Routledge

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• How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

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  Maturity, Branches, Fruit

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.279, Routledge

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• Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

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  Men, Madness, Knows

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• The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.

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  Life, Future, Mean

  "Les Faux Monnayeurs". Book by André Gide, Pt. 3, ch. 16, 1925.

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• What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.

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  Love Life, Giving, Trying

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• I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

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  Love, Flower, Hands

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• 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.

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  Happiness, Loyalty, Past

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• What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

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  Effort, Demand, Teach

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• But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

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  New Year, Holiday, Years

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

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  Long, Literature, Bent

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

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  Life, Literature, Action

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• Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

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  Stupid, Silly, Men

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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.

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  Change, Being Yourself, Writing

  "Les Nourritures Terrestres". Book by André Gide, 1897.

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• Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

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  Education, Law, Childhood

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• It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.

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  Truth Is, Harder

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• Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

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  Reason

  "The Fruits of the Earth". Book by André Gide, book I, 1897.

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• The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

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  Tasks, Capacity

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• We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

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  Joy, Mind, Needs

  "Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality". Book by André Gide, edited by Justin O'Brien, 1964.

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• Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

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  Ideas, Doe, Dare

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• Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

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  Love, Hate, Men

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