André Gide Quotes

Characters in a novel or a play who act all the way through exactly as one expects them to... This consistency of theirs, which is held up to our admiration, is on the contrary the very thing which makes us recognise that they are artificially composed.

Those [who] assiduously fabricate for themselves a self-conscious originality, and after having made a choice of certain practices, their principal preoccupation is never to depart from them, to remain for ever on their guard and allow themselves not a moment's relaxation.

Exist pentru a-l ajuta, nu pentru a-l abate din drumul său.

Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

Solo las almas muy banales alcanzan fácilmente la expresión sincera de su personalidad. Pues una personalidad nueva solo se expresa sinceramente en una forma nueva. La frase que nos es personal ha de ser tan particularmente difícil de tensar como el arco de Ulises

Вы любите нечеловеческое

Être aveugle pour se croire heureux. Croire qu'on y voit clair pour ne pas chercher à y voir puisque : L'on ne peut se voir que malheureux.

"I say, "it seemed to me," for from the depths of my past childhood, there now awoke in me the glimmerings of a thousand lost sensations. The fact that I was once more aware of my senses enabled me to give them a half fearful recognition. Yes; my reawakened senses now remembered a whole ancient history of their own — recomposed for themselves a vanished past. They were alive! Alive! They had never ceased to live; they discovered that even during those early studious years they had been living their own latent, cunning life."

And suddenly I was seized with a desire, a craving, something more furious and more imperious than I had ever felt before — to live! I want to live! I will live. I clenched my teeth, my hands, concentrated my whole being in this wild, grief-stricken endeavour towards existence.

როცა საფრანგეთში პარტიულ გაზეთს უნდა ვინმეს დისკრედიტირება პოლიტიკური მოსაზრებით, ის ამ ბინძურ საქმეს ამ კაცის მტერს ავალებს. სსრკ-ში ამას უახლოეს მეგობარს ავალებენ. და კი არ სთხოვენ - მოითხოვენ. საუკეთესო ქმედება ის ქმედებაა, რომელიც გამცემლობითაა გამყარებული. მთავარია, რომ მეგობარი გაემიჯნოს კაცს, რომელსაც დაღუპვას უპირებენ და წარმოადგინოს მტკიცებები. თუ არ იგარეწრებ და მეგობარს არ გაყიდი, მასთან ერთად დაიღუპები

Pour moi, être aimé n’est rien, c’est être préféré que je désire.

Words are traitors, for language tends to impose more logic than there is logic in life, and that the most precious in us is that which remains unexpressed.

Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.

Al salir, veo en el pequeño patio delante de la casita dos niños de cuatro a cinco años con una mujer; su madre, evidentemente, a la que saludo. El niño y la niña llevan sendas hojas de cuarentena. El niño me señala con el dedo y repite dirigiéndose a la mujer, varias veces, como hacen los niños cuando quieren que se los escuche: –¡Tiene pies! Tiene pies… Era tan extraño que pregunto a la mujer: –¿Qué dice? Ella, a su vez, me repite la frase. –Pero tú también tienes pies –le digo al pequeño acariciándole la mejilla–. No querrás que yo no los tenga… –Ah, pero es que su padre no tiene más que uno –replica la mujer.

Take me away from here and give me some reason for living. I have none left. I have freed myself. That may be. But what does it signify? This objectless liberty is a burden to me.