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From Quotes by Andre Gide
- It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to live; before killing…
- An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets…
- The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.
- In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of…
- Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
- If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so.
- Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
- From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
- The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does…
- 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!…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
- In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I…
- Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
- The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
- The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations.
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