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André GideL'immoralista
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Frasi sull'arte di André Gide
Incontri e pretesti
Incontri e pretesti
Frasi su Dio di André Gide
Origine: Da Il dio che è fallito, Baldini Castoldi Dalai, p. 208.
“Famiglie! Vi odio! Focolari chiusi; porte serrate; geloso possesso della felicità.”
Origine: Da I nutrimenti terrestri.
André Gide Frasi e Citazioni
Origine: Citato in Focus, n. 112, p. 98.
“Bisogna lasciare la ragione agli altri perché questo li consola del non avere altro.”
Variante: Bisogna lasciare la ragione agli altri perché questo li consola di non aver altro.
Origine: Dalla lettera a Proust del 3 maggio 1921, fingendo di recensire Swann; citato in Alessandro Piperno, Alla recherche di Proust, in Il secolo gay, Diario del mese, gennaio 2006, p. 41.
“[Simone Weil] La santa degli esclusi.”
Origine: Citato in Thomas R. Nevin, Simone Weil: Ritratto di un'ebrea che si volle esiliare, traduzione di Giulia Boringhieri, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 1997, p. 421. ISBN 88-339-1056-3
Origine: Da Corydon, Dall'Oglio, Milano, 1952, p. 83.
“Non si può allo stesso tempo essere sinceri e sembrare tali.”
L'immoralista
Origine: Citato in Frammenti, La Fiera Letteraria, 14 agosto 1960; disponibile su fondazionemarinopiazzolla.it http://www.fondazionemarinopiazzolla.it/Frammenti.php.
OSCAR WILDE in Memoriam (Ricordi) edizione numerata di 1000 copie Mario Luca Giusti Firenze 1979
L'immoralista
Origine: Da Emilia Surmonte, Il grand tour di André Gide a Ravello, citato in Corriere del Mezzogiorno.it, 11 agosto 2010, https://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/napoli/notizie/arte_e_cultura/2010/11-agosto-2010/grand-tour-andre-gide-ravello--1703558230938.shtml
André Gide: Frasi in inglese
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
Frequently misattributed to Marilyn Monroe or Kurt Cobain.
Origine: https://books.google.com/books?id=xUtdDnEhkMMC&pg=PT12&lpg=PT12#v=onepage&q&f=false
Origine: Autumn Leaves, Philosophical eLibrary, 2012, (Feuillets d'automne, 1941, trans. Jeanine Parisier Plottel)
Literature and Ethics, entry for 1901
Journals 1889-1949
Toutes choses sont dites déjà; mais comme personne n'écoute, il faut toujours recommencer.
Le Traité du Narcisse https://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/Le_Trait%C3%A9_du_narcisse (The Treatise of the Narcissus)
Nothing is said that has not been said before. -- Terence
Maurice in “Characters,” p. 298
Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality (1964)
Contesto: In my present insistence on high standards you will see that there is less self-indulgence than resolve and application. I do not let the Christian monopolize the ideal of perfection. I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.
“Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.”
Origine: The Immoralist
On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage.
Often misquoted as "Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Frequently misattributed to Christopher Columbus.
Variante: Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Origine: Les faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters] (1925)
“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”
Si le grain ne meurt [If It Die] (1924), ch. III
Origine: Autumn Leaves
“Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.”
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Variante: Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it
Contesto: Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
“Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself — and thus make yourself indispensable.”
Les Nourritures Terrestres (1897), Envoi
Variante: Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
Contesto: 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.
“Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.”
La sagesse n'est pas dans la raison, mais dans l'amour.
Les Nourritures Terrestres [Fruits of the Earth] (1897), book I
Origine: Autumn Leaves