In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring. Andre Gide More Quotes by Andre Gide More Quotes From Andre Gide A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. Andre Gide objectivity inspiration goal What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. Andre Gide teach demand effort Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do. Andre Gide angel play joy Often the best in us springs from the worst in us. Andre Gide worst spring Sin is whatever obscures the soul. Andre Gide sin soul life It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying. Andre Gide harder truth-is Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. Andre Gide preparation unique joy Only fools don't contradict themselves Andre Gide fool It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward. Andre Gide bent literature long Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Andre Gide creative-collaboration spiritual art He who wants a rose must respect her thorn. Andre Gide wildflowers respect rose Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone. Andre Gide being-single venture single The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy. Andre Gide blasphemy adoration mind The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness. Andre Gide perseverance men hands The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized. Andre Gide strength doe art What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. Andre Gide literature stories writing Understanding is the beginning of approving. Andre Gide approving understanding Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. Andre Gide resistance overcoming art To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs. Andre Gide philosophical awkward soul Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue. Andre Gide self-pity misery sadness
