Andre Gide Quotes

Walk of life:French author

Born:22 November 1869, Paris, France

Died:19 February 1951, Paris, France

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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDE

Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDE

Answer Console Insult People
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDE

Art Artist Collaboration God
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDE

Doubt Finding Trust Truth
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDE

Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
ANDRE GIDE

Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
ANDRE GIDE

God Interesting Man Men Precious
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDE

Sin Soul
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRE GIDE

Horror Love Mankind Men

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