The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance. — Andre Gide Courage Copy Share Image
The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered… — Andre Gide Flower Copy Share Image
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up. — Andre Gide Age Copy Share Image
The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation. — 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 Desire Copy Share Image
“Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.” — Andre Gide Communication Copy Share Image
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” — André Gide Communication Copy Share Image
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's… — Andre Gide Architecture Copy Share Image
“Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not… — André Gide Attraction Copy Share Image
They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is… — Andre Gide Action Copy Share Image
The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are… — Andre Gide Anxiety Copy Share Image
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands… — Andre Gide Beauty Copy Share Image
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could… — Andre Gide Care Copy Share Image
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it;… — Andre Gide Beauty 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 Death Copy Share Image
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. — Andre Gide Happiness Copy Share Image
