When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death — Andre Gide Death Copy Share Image
“Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.” — André Gide Philosophical Copy Share Image
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. — Andre Gide Art Copy Share Image
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less… — Andre Gide Art Copy Share Image
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. — Andre Gide Deep thought Copy Share Image
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“What was doubly disconcerting for me was that he showed such extraordinary and precocious insight in describing his own feelings that I… — André Gide Disconcerting Copy Share Image
An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other… — Andre Gide Belief Copy Share Image
The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them… — Andre Gide Character Copy Share Image
Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person… — Andre Gide Chronology Copy Share Image
“Wild animals passed on their way under the leaves; each track was an arterial road; and when I stooped and looked at… — André Gide Animals Copy Share Image
“The very things that separated me and distinguished me from other people were what mattered; the very things no one else would… — André Gide Copy Share Image
It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought… — Andre Gide Awakening Copy Share Image
No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had… — Andre Gide Alive Copy Share Image
Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page.… — Andre Gide Age Copy Share Image
“He (Lafcadio) was sitting all alone in a compartment of the train which was carrying him away from Rome, & contemplating–not without… — Andre Gide Fitness Copy Share Image
“Nothing can make a face more impenetrable than the mask of kindliness.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours? — Andre Gide Apathy Copy Share Image
