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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