Andre Gide Quotes About Literature
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
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The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
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It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
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Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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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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The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Not everyone can be an orphan.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
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