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Only Quotes by Andre Gide
- The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation.
- 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…
- Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
- If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
- Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.
- Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant.
- Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
- It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
- The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
- Solitude is bearable only with God.
- Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
- 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…
- 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…
- One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and consequently get nothing.
- It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
- Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
- Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave…
- Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
- What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
- Only fools don't contradict themselves
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