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Famous Andre Gide Quotes
Source: The Immoralist
“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
Source: Autumn Leaves
“In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.”
Source: The Immoralist
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.”
“Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death”
“Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness.”
Source: Marshlands and Prometheus Misbound
“The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“When everything belongs to everyone, nobody will take care of anything.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.”
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
Source: Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality
“A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.”
“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.”
“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.”
“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”
Source: The Counterfeiters: A Novel
“Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”
“Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.”
“It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.”