Andre Gide Quotes - Page 6

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• Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.

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  Littles, Triumph, Belief

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.34, Routledge

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• Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.

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  Angel, Play, Joy

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• Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

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  Intelligent, Men, People

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.275, Routledge

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• The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.

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  Lying, Loss, Sacrifice

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• The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

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  Inspirational, Forget, Forget Him

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

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• The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

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  Mind, Adoration, Blasphemy

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• Please do not understand me too quickly.

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  Understand Me, Please

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• It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

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  Reality, Worry, Would Be

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• Prejudices are the props of civilization.

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  Civilization, Justice, Prejudice

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.10, Vintage

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• The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.

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  Character, Voice, Novelists

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• To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

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  Motivational, Travel, Reading

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.105, Routledge

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• An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

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  Understanding, Experience, Looks

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• I do not love men: I love what devours them.

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  Men, Mankind

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• Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

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  People, Age, Woe

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.101, Routledge

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

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  Writing, Literature, Stories

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

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• There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.

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  Simple, Feelings, Complicated

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.284, Routledge

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• If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

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  Inspirational, Would Be, Spirit

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.165, Vintage

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• The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

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  Hatred, Broads, Nations

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• The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.

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  Cutting, Vanity, Anxiety

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• 'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

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  Sarcastic, Poetry, Poetic

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• The novelist does not long to see the
  lion eat grass. He realizes that one and
  the same God created the wolf and the
  lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his
  work was good.”

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  Long, Novelists, Doe

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• When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

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  Needs, Prudent, Prudence

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• Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.

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  Dwelling Place, Perfect, Attention

  "Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality". Book by André Gide, "Characters," p. 299, 1964.

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• The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

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  Art, Serenity, Rising

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

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• To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

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  Inspirational, Happiness, Struggle

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