Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours? — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn’t hesitate to do so. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and… — André Gide Copy Share Image
Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast! — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and these are… — André Gide Copy Share
I believe that in every circumstance I have been able to see rather clearly the most advantageous course I could follow, which is very… — Andre Gide Copy Share
Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself… — Andre Gide Copy Share
“There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.” — André Gide Copy Share
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! — Andre Gide Copy Share
God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved. — Andre Gide Copy Share
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. — Andre Gide Copy Share
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. — Andre Gide Copy Share
It is one of life's laws that as soon as one door closes another opens. But the tragedy is we look at the closed… — Andre Gide Copy Share
“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.” — Andre Gide Copy Share
