Andre Gide Quotes - Page 9

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

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  Writing, Noble, Literature

  Letter to François Mauriac, 1929.

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• They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

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  Action, Pleasure, Natural

  ANDRE GIDE (1958). “THE IMMORALIST”

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• Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

  Andre Gide

  Art, Self, Expression

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• The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.

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  Faith, Mean, Use

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

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• The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.

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  People, Interesting, Individual

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

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  Respect, Differences, Generations

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

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• I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

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  Believe, Able, Circumstances

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

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• Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

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  Action, Profit, Motive

  "The Immoralist". Book by André Gide. Translated by R. Howard, 1902.

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• Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.

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  Giving Up, Age, Imagine

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• The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.

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  Jobs, People

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.450, Vintage

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• Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.

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  Life, May, Fresh Start

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• The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.

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  Broken Heart, Breakup, Thinking

  "The Journals of André Gide: 1914-1927". 1951.

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• The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.

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  Gold, Pieces, Empty

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.27, Routledge

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• Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

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  Perfect, Action, Pleasure

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• If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use

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  Flower, Men, Worry

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• Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

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  Motivational, Change, Fall

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• We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us

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  Running, Risk, Portraits

  Andre Gide (2012). “Lafcadio's Adventures: A Novel”, p.226, Vintage

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• Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

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  Jealousy, Hate, Home

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

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  Literature, Depends

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• Whither should we aim if not towards God?

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  Should, Aim, Ifs

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• The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.

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  Effort, Paradise, Sin

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

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

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  Nature, Literature, Trembling

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• The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it.

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  Men, Creation Of Man, Would Be

  "The Immoralist".

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• We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

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  Truth, Honesty, Fighting

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.159, Routledge

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• With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.

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  Book, Writing, Admirer

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