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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself. Croyez ceux qui cherchent la v
By Andre Gide
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.
By Andre Gide
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
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Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
By Andre Gide
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.
By Andre Gide
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
By Andre Gide
Before I explain my book to others, I expect them to explain it to me. To claim to explain it first is to immediately narrow down its reach; for if we know what we intended to say, we do not know whether we said only that. - One always says more than THAT. - And what interests me most is what I put in without knowing, - that unconscious share, which I would like to call God's share.
By Andre Gide
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
By Andre Gide
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
By Andre Gide
The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.
By Andre Gide
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
By André Gide
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
By Andre Gide
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
By Andre Gide
Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
By Andre Gide
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
By Andre Gide
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
By Andre Gide