Andre Gide Quotes

Andre Gide (54)

Birth:	22nd November, 1869
Death:	19th February, 1951
Nationality:	French
Profession:	Author, Essayist, Novelist

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• 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

• There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

  Andre Gide

• There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

  Andre Gide

• The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

  Andre Gide

• The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

  Andre Gide

• 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

• The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

  Andre Gide

• The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

  Andre Gide

• The color of truth is gray.

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• Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

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• Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.

  Andre Gide

• Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

  Andre Gide

• Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

  Andre Gide

• Not everyone can be an orphan.

  Andre Gide

• No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

  Andre Gide

• Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

  Andre Gide

• Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

  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

• It is good to follow one’s own bent, so long as it leads upward.

  Andre Gide

• In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

  Andre Gide