There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your truth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself. It… — Andre Gide Truth Copy Share Image
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish. — Andre Gide Love Copy Share Image
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and,… — Andre Gide Appetite Copy Share Image
By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked. — Andre Gide Answers Copy Share Image
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with… — Andre Gide Books Copy Share Image
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest. — Andre Gide Intelligence Copy Share Image
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you,… — Andre Gide Done Copy Share Image
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have… — Andre Gide Absurd Copy Share Image
Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so… — Andre Gide Action Copy Share Image
Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory. — Andre Gide Atheism Copy Share Image
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices. — Andre Gide Character Copy Share Image
“Wild animals passed on their way under the leaves; each track was an arterial road; and when I stooped and looked at… — André Gide Animals Copy Share Image
Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party. — Andre Gide Mark Copy Share Image
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them. — Andre Gide Appetite Copy Share Image
There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens. — Andre Gide Doors Copy Share Image
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection. — Andre Gide Complicated Copy Share Image
