The Counterfeiters
André Gide
Top 10 Best Quotes
“On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage. (One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.)”
“There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.”
“I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.”
“When I was younger, I used to make resolutions which imagined were virtuous. I was less anxious to be what I was, than to become what I wished to be. Now, I am not far from thinking that in irresolution lies the secret of not growing old.”
“...Gradation; gradation; and then a sudden leap...”
“For what use is it to forbid what we can't prevent? If books are forbidden, children read them on the sly.”
“Each one of a pair of lovers fashions himself to meet the other's requirements—endeavors by a continual effort to resemble that idol of himself which he beholds in the other's heart.... Whoever really loves abandons all sincerity.”
“In a world in which everyone cheats, it's the honest man who passes for a charlatan.”
“Those [who] assiduously fabricate for themselves a self-conscious originality, and after having made a choice of certain practices, their principal preoccupation is never to depart from them, to remain for ever on their guard and allow themselves not a moment's relaxation.”
“The deeper the soul plunges into religious religious devotion, the more it loses all sense of reality, all need, all desire, all love for reality.”
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parents, father, habit, fear, honesty, fathers, cure
