Memorable Quotes and quotations from Andre GideAndre Gide French critic, essayist, & novelist (1869 - 1951)Andre Gide - - It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. Andre Gide - - Dare to be yourself. Andre Gide - - Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. Andre Gide - - Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly. Andre Gide - - Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain. Andre Gide - - Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. Andre Gide - - Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. Andre Gide - - 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. Andre Gide - - Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Andre Gide - - Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. Andre Gide - - It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. Andre Gide - - Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. Andre Gide - - So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity. Andre Gide - Le traite du Narcisse (1891) - Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. |
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