“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
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. — 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… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“I say, "it seemed to me," for from the depths of my past childhood, there now awoke in me the glimmerings of… — André Gide Copy Share Image
What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves. — Andre Gide 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
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe… — 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 anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to… — 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
