André Gide quotes

André Gide was a French writer and Nobel laureate, renowned for his insightful exploration of morality and human freedom. His works often addressed issues of individuality, sexuality, and social convention. He became one of the most influential literary figures of the twentieth century. Here are 127 of his quotes:

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. (André Gide)
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. View quote
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Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. View quote
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself. View quote
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. View quote
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. View quote
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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. View quote
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. View quote
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. View quote
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Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. View quote
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul. (André Gide)
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed door and disregard the open one. View quote
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. View quote
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all. View quote
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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. View quote
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The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The most decisive actions of our life I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future are, more often than not, unconsidered. View quote
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. View quote
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Prejudices are the props of civilization. (André Gide)
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. View quote
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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. View quote
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. View quote
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. View quote
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André Gide

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Occupation: French Author
Born: November 22, 1869
Died: February 19, 1951
Quotes count: 127
Wikipedia: André Gide

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