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Andre Gide Quotes


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.

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.

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

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

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.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.