Andre Gide's Quotes

Andre Gide's Quotes 24

No theory is good unless it permits not rest but the greatest work. No...

The color of truth is gray.

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

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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says but to...

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore...

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make...

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'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

It is easier to lead men to combat stirring up their passion than to...

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it only what...

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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.

Everything has been said before but since nobody listens we have to keep...

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

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

Old hands soil it seems whatever they caress but they too have their...

Through loyalty to the past our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy...

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist...

The sole art that suits me is that which rising from unrest tends toward...

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

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No...

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist and the less the artist...

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic and...

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having...