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Andre Gide
Profession : Novelist
Birth : November 22, 1869
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The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Andre Gide
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre Gide
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Andre Gide
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
Andre Gide
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
Andre Gide
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Andre Gide
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Andre Gide
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
Andre Gide
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.
Andre Gide
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide
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.
Andre Gide
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre Gide
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Andre Gide
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
Andre Gide
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
Andre Gide
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Andre Gide
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Andre Gide
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Andre Gide
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Andre Gide
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
Andre Gide
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