Andre Gide Quotes

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Andre Gide

Inspirational, Yourself, Faithful

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Andre Gide

Path, Except, Straight

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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Andre Gide

Succeed, Themselves, Knowing

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide

Experience, Everything, Before

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Andre Gide

Courage, Cannot, Lose

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide

Art, God, Between

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide

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.
Andre Gide

Peace, Men, Passion

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Andre Gide

Time, Long, Lose

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Andre Gide

Quarrels, Amplify

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Andre Gide

Beautiful, Reason, Inspired

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.
Andre Gide

Yourself, Done, Said

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
Andre Gide

Truth, Doubt, Find

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

Beauty, Today, Mind

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide

Happiness, Nothing, Memory

The color of truth is gray.
Andre Gide

Truth, Color, Gray

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide

Die, Fish, Rise

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.
Andre Gide

Life, Real, Person

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

Become, Ugly, Himself

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Andre Gide

Art, Great, Human

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Andre Gide

Good, Long, Follow

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

Working, Away, Often

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

Life, Alone, Everything

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

Work, Art, Overcome

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
Andre Gide

God, Through, Depends

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Biography

Nationality: French

Born: December 22, 1869

Died: February 19, 1951

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