Andre Gide
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Andre GideArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre GideThe 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.
Andre GideDare to be yourself.
Andre GideSo long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
Andre GideKnow thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
Andre GideGreat authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
Andre GideEverything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre GideThe 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.
Andre GideWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
Andre GideOne doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre GideMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre GideThere are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Andre Gide"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
Andre GideBe faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
Andre GideIt 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 GideArt is a collarboration between God an the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre GideBelieve those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre GideComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Andre GideIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Andre GideIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre GideIf a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.
Andre GideThe most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Andre GideIt is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labours of peace.
Andre GideIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide
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