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
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live. — 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
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. — 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
I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
“We who would seek new land must be willing to sacrifice the sight of shore for a long, long time.” — André Gide Copy Share Image
By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked. — Andre Gide 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 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 facts of history all appeared to me like specimens in a herbarium, permanently dried, so that it was easy to forget… — André Gide Copy Share Image
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the… — 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
