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Andre Gide Quotes about Age

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When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

Andre Gide
Age, Indignant, Old Age

Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

Andre Gide
People, Age, Woe
Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.101, Routledge

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.

Andre Gide
Art, Age, Doe
Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.51, Routledge

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Andre Gide
Age, Youth, Chaste

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
Giving Up, Age, Imagine

It is not becoming to lay to virtue the weariness of old age.

Andre Gide
Age, Becoming, Virtue

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

Andre Gide
Honor, Age, Literature

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