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I believe that in every circum...

I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very rarely the one I did follow.

Andre Gide 316 quotes

Understanding is the beginning...

Understanding is the beginning of approving.

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Man's responsibility increases...

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

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Never have I been able to sett...

Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.

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The very act of sacrifice magn...

The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.

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How much more sensuality invit...

How much more sensuality invites to art than does sentimentality.

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He who makes great demands upo...

He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

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Solitude is bearable only with...

Solitude is bearable only with God.

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To be sure, theory is useful. ...

To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.

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To love the truth is to refuse...

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

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Atheism. There is not a single...

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

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Obsessions of the Orient, of t...

Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments white and wide - obsessions where the senses go berserk, where nerves are exasperated, and which made me, at the onset of each night, believe sleep impossible.

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Man's first and greatest victo...

Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.

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There's a law in life: wheneve...

There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

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I would like the events never ...

I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from various angles) by those among the characters on whom they will have had any effect. I would like those events, in the account they will make of them, to appear slightly distorted; a kind of interest stems, for the reader, from the simple fact that he should need to restore. The story requires his collaboration in order to properly take shape.

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Man: The most complex of being...

Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.

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Enduring fame is promised only...

Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives upon the scene with its own particular hunger.

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Each of us really understands ...

Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

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The anxiety we have for the fi...

The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are often more concerned with making a display than with living. Whoever feels observed observes himself.

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What eludes logic is the most ...

What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.

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