Andre Gide Quotes
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
Andre Gide
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Author Details:
Type:
Novelist Quotes
Category:
French Novelist Quotes
Date of Birth:
December 22, 1869
Date of Death:
February 19, 1951
Nationality:
French
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Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Marquis de Sade
Luc de Clapier
Honore de Balzac
Emile Zola
Anatole France
George Sand
Gustave Flaubert
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Select Andre Gide Quotations:
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
Andre Gide
Not everyone can be an orphan.
Andre Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
Andre Gide
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide
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Quote Keywords:

Belly,
Die,
Falling,
Fish,
Rise,
Surface,
Their,
Upward,
Way
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Dictionary Links:

Belly,
Die,
Falling,
Fish,
Rise,
Surface,
Their,
Upward,
Way
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All Andre Gide Quotations:
A straight path never leads anywhere...
Art begins with resistance - at the...
Art is a collaboration between God...
Art is the collaboration between God...
Be faithful to that which exists...
Believe those who are seeking the...
Complete possession is proved only by...
Everything has been said before, but...
Fish die belly upward, and rise...
God depends on us. It is...
Great authors are admirable in this...
I owe much to my friends...
In hell there is no other...
It is better to be hated...
It is easier to lead men...
It is good to follow one's...
It is not always by plugging...
It is only in adventure that...
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman...
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious...
Man is more interesting than men...
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
No theory is good unless it...
Not everyone can be an orphan.
Nothing is so silly as the...
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory...
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever...
One does not discover new lands...
Only those things are beautiful which...
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
The color of truth is gray.
The most beautiful things are those...
The most decisive actions of life...
The most gifted natures are perhaps...
The most important things to say...
The sole art that suits me...
The want of logic annoys. Too...
There are very few monsters who...
There is no prejudice that the...
Therefore" is a word the poet...
Through loyalty to the past, our...
To read a writer is for...
To what a degree the same...
Welcome anything that comes to you...
What another would have done as...
What would there be in a...
Work and struggle and never accept...
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