Andre Gide
Novelist
1869-11-22 – 1951-02-19
Andre Gide was a French novelist and essayist who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947.
Books by Andre Gide
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If It Die
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The Immoralist
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Quotes by Andre Gide
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
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It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
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Whither should we aim if not towards God?
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Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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The scholar seeks, the artist finds.
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The work of art is the exaggeration of an idea.
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The work of art is a part of nature seen through a temperament.
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The artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.
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There is no work of art that is without short cuts.
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The wise man is astonished by anything.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves-in finding themselves.
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