André Gide híres idézetei
André Gide: Idézetek angolul
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
Frequently misattributed to Marilyn Monroe or Kurt Cobain.
Forrás: https://books.google.com/books?id=xUtdDnEhkMMC&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false
Forrás: Autumn Leaves, Philosophical eLibrary, 2012, (Feuillets d'automne, 1941, trans. Jeanine Parisier Plottel)
Literature and Ethics, entry for 1901
Journals 1889-1949
Toutes choses sont dites déjà; mais comme personne n'écoute, il faut toujours recommencer. <br class="br"> Le Traité du Narcisse https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Trait%C3%A9_du_narcisse (The Treatise of the Narcissus) <br class="br">Nothing is said that has not been said before. -- Terence
Maurice in “Characters,” p. 298
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
Kontextus: In my present insistence on high standards you will see that there is less self-indulgence than resolve and application. I do not let the Christian monopolize the ideal of perfection. I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.
“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”
Forrás: Prometheus Illbound
“Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.”
André Gide könyv The Immoralist
Forrás: The Immoralist
André Gide könyv The Immoralist
Forrás: The Immoralist
André Gide könyv The Counterfeiters
On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage.
Often misquoted as "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Frequently misattributed to Christopher Columbus.
Változat: Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Forrás: Les faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters] (1925)
“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”
Si le grain ne meurt [If It Die] (1924), ch. III
Forrás: Autumn Leaves
“Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.”
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Változat: Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it
Kontextus: Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
“Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.”
Les Nourritures Terrestres (1897), Envoi
Változat: Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Kontextus: What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.
André Gide könyv The Immoralist
Forrás: The Immoralist
“Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.”
La sagesse n'est pas dans la raison, mais dans l'amour.
Les Nourritures Terrestres [Fruits of the Earth] (1897), book I
Forrás: Autumn Leaves
