André Gide: Citáty v angličtine (page 4)

André Gide bol andré Gide (1893). Citáty v angličtine.
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“It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.”

C'est avec de beaux sentiments qu'on fait de la mauvaise littérature.
Letter to François Mauriac (1929)

“O my dearest and most lovable thought, why should I try further to legitimize your birth?”

“Characters,” p. 310
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)

“It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought just as I did, and that I found in them rather an authorization than an awakening. Above all, they taught me to cease doubting, to cease fearing my thoughts, and to let those thoughts lead me to those lands that were not uninhabitable because after all I found them already there.”

Pourtant il me semble que, n'eussé-je connu ni Dostoïevski, ni Nietzsche, ni Freud, ni X. ou Z., j'aurais pensé tout de même, et que j'ai trouvé chez eux plutôt une autorisation qu'un éveil. Surtout ils m'ont appris à ne plus douter de moi-même, à ne pas avoir peur de ma pensée et à me laisser mener par elle, puisqu'aussi bien je les y retrouvais.
“Characters,” p. 306
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)

“Sin is whatever obscures the soul.”

André Gide kniha La Symphonie Pastorale

Le péché, c'est ce qui obscurcit l'âme.
La Symphonie Pastorale (1919)

“Let every emotion be capable of becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.”

...que toute émotion sache te devenir une ivresse. Si ce que tu manges ne te grise pas, c'est que tu n'avais pas assez faim.
Les Nourritures Terrestres (1897)

“The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.”

Detached Pages, entry for 1913
Journals 1889-1949

“Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.”

“Characters,” p. 304
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)

“Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.”

“An Unprejudiced Mind,” p. 311
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)

“Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.”

Ainsi soit-il; ou, Les Jeux sont faits
So be it; or, The chips are down
Gallimard
1952
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Originál: (fr) Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent; doutez de tout, mais ne doutez pas de vous-même.