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Oh, would that my mind could ...

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!

Andre Gide 316 quotes

We no longer admit any other ...

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

Andre Gide 316 quotes

There is a law in life: When ...

There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens.

Andre Gide 316 quotes

The true return to nature is ...

The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.

Andre Gide 316 quotes

Atheism. There is not a singl...

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

Andre Gide 316 quotes

Oh, would that my mind could ...

Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!

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An opinion, though it is orig...

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

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Obsessions of the Orient, of ...

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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The individual man tries to e...

The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.

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I have never produced anythin...

I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

Andre Gide 316 quotes

We prefer to go deformed and ...

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us

Andre Gide 316 quotes

The artist who is after succe...

The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.

Andre Gide 316 quotes

Humanity cherishes its swaddl...

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's breast does not make the weaned child ungrateful. ... Rise up naked, valiant; make the sheaths crack; push aside the stakes; to grow straight you need no more than the thrust of your sap and the call of the sun.

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Most often it happens that on...

Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

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It is with noble sentiments t...

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

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Man: The most complex of bein...

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

Andre Gide 316 quotes

An artist cannot get along wi...

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

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I wished for nothing beyond h...

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.

Andre Gide 316 quotes

The reasons that drive me to ...

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

Andre Gide 316 quotes

The itch is a mean, unconfess...

The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.

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