To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
André Gide Quotes
1869–1951 France
André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947.
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Also known as: Andre Gide, Gide, André
47 quotes
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
Si le grain ne meurt [If It Die (1924)
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
The Immoralist (1902)
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
Portraits and Aphorisms (1903)
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
O my dearest and most lovable thought, why should I try further to legitimize your birth?
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
Man’s responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: André Gide (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.