André Gide
"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."
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"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."
"لا تفعل ما كان ليفعله غيرك مثلك. لا تقل ما كان ليقوله غيرك مثلك. لا تكتب ما كان ليكتبه غيرك مثلك. كن وفيًا لما لا يوجد إلا في ذاتك، وبذلك تجعل نفسك لا غنى عنها."
André Gide
"Oh would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas as the tree does its withered leaves!"
"ليت عقلي يلقي أفكاره الميتة كما تلقي الشجرة أوراقها الذابلة!"
André Gide
"A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective."
"إن السبيل القويم لا يفضي إلا إلى غايته."
André Gide
"A work of art is an exaggeration."
"إن العمل الفني لهو مبالغة متفردة."
André Gide
"The scholar seeks the artist finds."
"العالم يطلب، والفنان يجد."
André Gide
"One completely overcomes only what one assimilates."
"لا يملك المرء التغلب التام إلا على ما استوعبه."
André Gide
"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."
"قراءة الكاتب عندي ليست مجرد استيعاب لما يقول، بل هي رحلة معه وسفر في صحبته."
André Gide
"I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path."
André Gide
"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
André Gide
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
André Gide
Autumn Leaves
"Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least."
André Gide
"Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature!"
André Gide
"She already loved me too much to see me as I was."
André Gide
"I hoped at first to find a rather more direct comprehension of life in one or two novelists and poets; but if they really had such a comprehension, it must be confessed they did not show it; most of them, I thought, did not really live - contented themselves with appearing to live, and were on the verge of considering life merely as a vexatious hindrance to writing."
André Gide
"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."
André Gide
"The secret seemed to me much more mysterious than that; it was the secret, I thought, of one who had known death; for I moved a stranger among ordinary people, like a man who has risen from the grave, and at first I merely felt rather painfully out of my element; but soon I became aware of a very different feeling. Was it pride now? Perhaps; but at any rate there was no trace of vanity mixed with it. It was rather, for the first time, the consciousness of my own worth. What separated me - distinguished me - from other people was crucial; what no one said, what no one could say but myself, that was my task to say."
André Gide
"In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring..."
André Gide
"“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”"
André Gide
Autumn Leaves
"To tell the truth, my dear count, I must own that of all nauseating human emanations, literature is one of those which disgust me most. I can see nothing in it but compromise and flattery. And I go so far as to doubt whether it can be anything else."
André Gide
"What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can be told."
André Gide
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