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Andre Gide Quotes about Literature

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

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

Life, Literature, Action

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Long, Literature, Bent

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Bores You, Annoyed, Literature

The journals, 1889-1949. Vol 2. (p. 20), 1956.

It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

Stars, Wish, Literature

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

Writing, Literature, Stories

Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.46, Lulu Press, Inc

Not everyone can be an orphan.

Literature, Orphan

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.

Writing, Literature, Produce

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

Writing, Noble, Literature

Letter to François Mauriac, 1929.

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

Literature, Depends

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Nature, Literature, Trembling

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

Honor, Age, Literature

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.

Goes On, Literature, Use

"Andre Gide Journals 1889-1949". Book by André Gide, Detached Pages, 1913.

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