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Andre Gide [1869-1951] French

Rank: 11
Novelist, Author

André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight".

Art, Beauty, Experience, Great, Truth, Courage, Fear, Happiness, Inspirational, Men, Peace, Poetry, Respect, Travel

Quote	Tags	Rank
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.	Experience	101
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.		102
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.	Courage	103
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.		104
Not everyone can be an orphan.		105
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.		106
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.	Men, Peace	107
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.	Inspirational	108
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.	Great, Respect	109
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.		110
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.		111
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.	Fear	112
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.	Art, Great	113
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.	Art	114
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.		115
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.	Truth	116
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.		117
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.		118
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.	Art	119
The color of truth is gray.	Truth	120
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.	Happiness	121
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.	Travel	122
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.	Beauty	123
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.		124
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.		125
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.		126
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.		201
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.	Experience	202
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.		203
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.		204
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.	Beauty	205
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.		206
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.		207
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.		208
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.		209
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.	Poetry	210
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.		211
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.		212
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.		213
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.		214
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.		215
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.		216
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.		217
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.		218
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.		219
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.		220
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.		221
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.		222

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