Andre Gide Quotes

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
Not everyone can be an orphan.
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
The color of truth is gray.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
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Andre Gide
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22 November, 1869
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19 February, 1951
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