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
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. — 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
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
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them. — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! — 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 is achieved. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
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 Image
