...Gradation; gradation; and then a sudden leap... - André Gide

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...Gradation; gradation; and then a sudden leap...

André Gide

The Counterfeiters · June 12, 1973 Verified in 1 source Sign up to see the complete provenance

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About André Gide

André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947.

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Alternative Names: André Paul Guillaume Gide • Andre Gide • Andre Paul Guillaume Gide

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George Sand Jean-Paul Sartre Johann Wolfgang von Goethe William Somerset Maugham Anton Chekhov

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This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene — a moment's forgetfulness suffice.

Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.

What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told.