Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases. Andre Gide More Quotes by Andre Gide More Quotes From Andre Gide There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. Andre Gide doelifelong Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him. Andre Gide dwelling-placeperfectattention Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up. Andre Gide woeagepeople We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us Andre Gide portraitsriskrunning 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. Andre Gide readingmotivationaltravel With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one. Andre Gide admirerwritingbook True eloquence forgoes eloquence. Andre Gide eloquencemiscellaneous I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices. Andre Gide good-enoughvirtuevices Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination. Andre Gide fresh-startmaylife Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit. Andre Gide profitmotiveaction God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved. Andre Gide convincegodlying The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur. Andre Gide sacrificelosslying The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many. Andre Gide jobspeople No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since leaving Marseilles, reread three lines of the Odyssey, learned them by heart; then, finding sufficient sustenance in their rhythm and reveling in them at leisure, I closed the book and remained, trembling, more alive than I had thought possible, my mind numb with happiness. Andre Gide leavingheartbook From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. Andre Gide despairdesirejoy How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch. Andre Gide fruitmaturitybranches Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines. Andre Gide imaginegiving-upage When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent. Andre Gide prudenceprudentneeds 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 those among the characters on whom they will have had any effect. I would like those events, in the account they will make of them, to appear slightly distorted; a kind of interest stems, for the reader, from the simple fact that he should need to restore. The story requires his collaboration in order to properly take shape. Andre Gide readingsimplecharacter One completely overcomes only what one assimilates. Andre Gide acceptanceovercoming
