Frases de André Gide

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“El secreto de mi felicidad está en no esforzarse por el placer, sino en encontrar el placer en el esfuerzo.”

“Cree a aquellos que buscan la verdad, duda de los que la han encontrado.”

“La sabiduría no viene de la razón sino del amor.”

“Las cosas más bellas son las que inspira la locura y escribe la razón.”

“Todas las cosas adquieren importancia para nosotros en cuanto nos damos cuenta de que existen.”

“Si de verdad quieres ser feliz, no caigas en la tentación de comparar este momento con otros momentos del pasado, que a su vez no supiste gozar porque los comparabas con los momentos que habían de llegar.”

“El color de la verdad es gris.”

“El hombre no puede descubrir nuevos océanos a menos que tenga el coraje de perder de vista la costa.”

“No creer en Dios es mucho más difícil de lo que se piensa. Para seguir haciéndolo es necesario abstenerse de mirar la Naturaleza y de reflexionar sobre lo que vemos.”

“Diríase que el amor se ha prostituido, al pasar por el corazón de tantos imbéciles".”

“Solo las almas muy banales alcanzan fácilmente la expresión sincera de su personalidad. Pues una personalidad nueva solo se expresa sinceramente en una forma nueva. La frase que nos es personal ha de ser tan particularmente difícil de tensar como el arco de Ulises”

“Hemos construido catedrales inmóviles en la arena.”

“No se descubren nuevos continentes si no se tiene el valor de perder de vista las viejas orillas.”

“Que mi libro te enseñe a interesarte más en ti mismo que en él, luego, en todo el mundo más que en ti mismo.”

“No hay problemas, solo soluciones.”

“No estoy ni triste ni alegre; este aire de aquí te llena de una muy vaga exaltación y te hace conocer un estado que parece tan lejano de la alegría como de la pena; quizá esto sea la felicidad.”

“Sabio es aquel que constantemente se maravilla.”

“El poeta cree que cuando muera se irá volando con todo y cama, derechito al cielo”

“… y tomando por tierra firme el flotante tapiz de flores, perdió pie bruscamente”

“Todo está dicho, pero como nadie escucha, hay que repetirlo cada mañana.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.”

“The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.”

“In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring…”

“We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.”

“A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned”

“I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.”

“The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.”

“Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.”

“I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.”

“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.”

“Seize from every moment it's unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.”

“When people felt they had a right to seek out Christ before the torment, and in the fullness of his joy—it was too late; the cross had overcome Christ himself; it was Christ crucified that people continued to see and teach. And thus it is that religion came to plunge the world into gloom.”

“True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one’s own the suffering and joys of others.”

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

“The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above art-as-ornament.”

“At times it seems to me that I am living my life backwards, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles—wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.”

“True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.”

“A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.”

“When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.”

“The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.”

“There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.”

“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.”

“The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the public acclaims only what it already knows, what it recognizes.”

“Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.”

“Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessions of happiness.”

“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.”

“We call “happiness” a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.”