Andre Gide Quotes
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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.
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What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
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One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
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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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By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
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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 those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
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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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Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
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Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
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The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
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I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
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There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
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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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Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.
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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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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.
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Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.
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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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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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