To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours? — 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 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
The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many. — 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
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
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
“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
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 Copy Share Image
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish. — Andre Gide 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
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
“What was doubly disconcerting for me was that he showed such extraordinary and precocious insight in describing his own feelings that I… — André Gide 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 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
“But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass,… — André 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
