Famous Quotes / Andre Gide
64 Quotations by Andre Gide
- 41. One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire ...
- 42. Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
- 43. Sadness is a state of sin.
- 44. Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
- 45. Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
- 46. Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
- 47. Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
- 48. So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
- 49. The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
- 50. The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole cours ...
- 51. The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
- 52. The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
- 53. There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Le ...
- 54. There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
- 55. There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
- 56. There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
- 57. Therefore is a word the poet must not know.
- 58. To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and tra ...
- 59. To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpr ...
- 60. To win one's joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.