Andre Gide Quotes on Life

8 quotes

  1. ' Nathaniel, let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.'

  2. The most decisive actions of our life-I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future-are, more often than not, unconsidered.

  3. The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.

  4. A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

  5. Dare to be yourself.

  6. So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

  7. The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

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

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