Andre Gide

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

— Andre Gide

“Amas lo inhumano.”

— André Gide

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

— Andre Gide

A work of art is an exaggeration.

— Andre Gide

“The self requires a story.”

— André Gide

Sadness is a state of sin.

— Andre Gide

Long only for what you have.

— Andre Gide

Do not scorn little victories.

— Andre Gide

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

— Andre Gide

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

— Andre Gide

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

— Andre Gide

Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

— Andre Gide

“Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.”

— André Gide

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

— Andre Gide

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

— Andre Gide

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

— Andre Gide

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

— Andre Gide

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not -Andre Gide

— Andre Gide

The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself…

— Andre Gide

Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

— Andre Gide

Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.

— Andre Gide

The only really Christian art is that which, like St. Francis, does not fear being wedded to poverty. This rises far above…

— Andre Gide

Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

— Andre Gide

The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers the most from its own limitations.

— Andre Gide

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of…

— Andre Gide

In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the…

— Andre Gide

“But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass,…

— André Gide

“…the facts of history all appeared to me like specimens in a herbarium, permanently dried, so that it was easy to forget…

— André Gide

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy…

— Andre Gide

We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions…

— Andre Gide

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of…

— Andre Gide

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms…

— Andre Gide

It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought…

— Andre Gide

Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If…

— Andre Gide

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

“He (Lafcadio) was sitting all alone in a compartment of the train which was carrying him away from Rome, & contemplating–not without…

— Andre Gide

No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had…

— Andre Gide

Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you…

— Andre Gide

Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from them. Turning down his mother's…

— Andre Gide

I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from…

— Andre Gide