Zitate, Sprüche & Aphorismen auf Englisch
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André Gide
Life can be more beautiful than generally thought. Wisdom lies not in reason but in love.
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André Gide
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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André Gide
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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André Gide
The great secret of Stendhal, his great shrewdness, consisted in writing at once . . . thought charged with emotion.
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André Gide
The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
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André Gide
The whole effect of Christianity was to transfer the drama onto the moral plane.
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André Gide
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself: It all depends on me.
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André Gide
There is a certain state of health that does not allow us to understand everything; and perhaps illness shuts us off from certain truths; but health shuts us off just as effectively from others.
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André Gide
To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
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André Gide
Toward what should we aim if not toward God?
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André Gide
We nearly always reveal our limitations through vanity, by trying to transcend them.
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André Gide
Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
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Sir William Schwenk Gilbert
The prisoner comes to meet his doom.
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Allen Ginsberg
A naked lunch is natural to us, we eat reality sandwiches. But allegories are so much lettuce, don't hide the madness.
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Allen Ginsberg
America I've given you all and now I'm nothing.
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Allen Ginsberg
I really believe, or want to believe, I am really nuts, otherwise I'll never be sane.
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Allen Ginsberg
I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery of the night.
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Allen Ginsberg
The only thing that can save the world is the reclaiming of the awareness of the world. That's what poetry does.
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Allen Ginsberg
What if someone gave a war & Nobody came? Life would ring the bells of Ecstasy and Forever be Itself again.
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Allen Ginsberg
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the avocados, babies in the tomatoes! -and you, Garcia Lorca what were you doing down by the watermelons?