Andre Gide Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.”

“In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.”

“Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.”

“'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.”

“It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.”

“The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.”

“To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.”

“I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.”

“It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.”

“Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.”