Quotes by Andre Gide

Andre Gide

‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.

Poetic

Poetry

Sarcastic

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A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

Butterfly

Caterpillars

Know Thyself

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A desire for truth is by no means a need for certitude and it would be unwise to confuse one with the other.

Desire

Honesty

Mean

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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Goal

Inspiration

Objectivity

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An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

Age

Art

Doe

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An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

Experience

Looks

Understanding

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An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

Doe

Important

Trying

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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.

Art

Overcoming

Resistance

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At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

Birthday

Real

Wrinkles

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Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

Believe

Profound

Truth

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