Andre Gide Quotes - Page 8

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• I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

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  Distance, Eye, Past

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• There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

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  Inspirational, Fear, Halloween

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• Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

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  Atheism, Doe, Influence

  "Journals". Translated by Justin O'Brien, January 13, 1929.

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• The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

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  Wisdom, Intelligence, Suffering

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• True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.

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  Kindness, Empathy, Joy

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.281, Routledge

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• Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?

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  Heart, Thinking, Long

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• I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

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  Grace, Able, Knows

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• The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.

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  Christian, Art, Poverty

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

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• Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

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  Men, Made, Dependent

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• There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.

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  Hope, Opportunity, Doors

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• Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.

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  Inspirational, People, Opinion

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.196, Vintage

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• Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.

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  Men, Spirituality, Achieve

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.205, Vintage

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• The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.

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  Thinking, Dislike Me, Wonderful

  Andre Gide (2012). “Lafcadio's Adventures: A Novel”, p.209, Vintage

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• Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

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  Block, Remembered

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• Not everyone can be an orphan.

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  Literature, Orphan

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• At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

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  Birthday, Real, Wrinkles

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.286, Routledge

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• The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

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  Artist, Greatness, Obstacles

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.54, Routledge

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• The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

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  Writing, Thinking, Secret

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• The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.

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  Sorry, Emotional, Justice

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• An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

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  Art, Age, Doe

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.51, Routledge

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• Sadness is a state of sin.

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  Sadness, Sin, States

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• I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

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  Joy, Defiance

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• It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.

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  Men, Moderation, Restraint

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• Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

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  Writing, Literature, Produce

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• Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

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  Age, Youth, Chaste

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