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André Gide

Quote of André Gide - Everything has been said before, but...


Biography - André Gide:

French author. Nobel Prize in Literature (1947).
Born: 1869 - Died: 1951
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.



Translation

Translation

(French)



French
Toutes choses sont dites déjà; mais comme personne n’écoute, il faut toujours recommencer.




See also 

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All is said, we have come too late; for more than seven thousand years there have been men, thinking.

All good maxims are in the world. We only need to apply them.

Everything clever has already been thought; we must only try to think it again.

Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.




Quotes

André Gide also said...


The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.





One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.





My happiness is to increase other people's. To be happy myself I need the happiness of all.





Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.





May your vision be new at every moment. The wise man is he whom everything astonishes.












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