64 Quotations by Andre Gide
- 1. A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
- 2. Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
- 3. Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
- 4. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
- 5. Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
- 6. Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
- 7. Dare to be yourself.
- 8. Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning a ...
- 9. Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.
- 10. I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemi ...
- 11. If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.
- 12. If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be f ...
- 13. In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with ...
- 14. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
- 15. It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them ...
- 16. It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
- 17. It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it ...
- 18. It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
- 19. It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
- 20. It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of t ...
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