To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
More Quotes from Andre Gide:
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 owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.Andre Gide
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable.
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 other good, decent fellows like himself, his gun would fall from his hands
Andre Gide
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
Andre Gide
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Andre Gide
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Andre Gide
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