To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy. — Andre Gide Happiness 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
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom. — Andre Gide Arduous Copy Share Image
Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a… — Andre Gide Existence Copy Share Image
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. — Andre Gide Giving 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
We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that… — Andre Gide Arms 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
He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others. — Andre Gide Demand Copy Share Image
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant. — Andre Gide Architecture Copy Share Image
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The… — Andre Gide Enemies Copy Share Image
“On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage. (One doesn't discover new… — André Gide Consenting 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 Action 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
Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity.… — Andre Gide Angel Copy Share Image
It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do not deserve to… — Andre Gide Army 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 Agoraphobia Copy Share Image
An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience,… — Andre Gide Argument Copy Share Image
The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the… — Andre Gide Age 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 Ancient history Copy Share Image
“The need of showing myself to be confident and perfectly at ease, precisely when I am least so. Talked much too much,… — André Gide Confidence Copy Share Image
If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the… — Andre Gide Approach Copy Share Image
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's. — Andre Gide Fail Copy Share Image
