“The things one feels are different about oneself are the things that are rare, that give each person their value - and… — André Gide Inspirational 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… — Andre Gide Able 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… — Andre Gide Butterfly Copy Share Image
“There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.” — André Gide Curiosity Copy Share Image
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! — Andre Gide Change 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… — Andre Gide Convince 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 Doe 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 Another man 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 Closed door Copy Share Image
“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.” — Andre Gide Happiness 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 Life Copy Share Image
How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch. — Andre Gide Branches Copy Share Image
“The priest accepted me, I accepted the priest, so everything went off smoothly.” — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than… — Andre Gide Adolescence Copy Share Image
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could… — Andre Gide Care Copy Share Image
It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying. — Andre Gide Harder Copy Share Image
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. — Andre Gide Art Copy Share Image
