If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast! — Andre Gide Casts Copy Share Image
Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gardens, of the garments… — Andre Gide Ardor Copy Share Image
Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit. — Andre Gide Action Copy Share Image
"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less… — Andre Gide Art Copy Share Image
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. — Andre Gide Courage Copy Share Image
The important thing is being capable of emotions, but to experience only one's own would be a sorry limitation. — Andre Gide Capable 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
The artist who is after success lets himself be influenced by the public. Generally such an artist contributes nothing new, for the… — Andre Gide Acclaim Copy Share Image
Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you… — Andre Gide Advantage 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
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's… — Andre Gide Architecture 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 Long time 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 Freedom Copy Share Image
Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself. — Andre Gide Belief Copy Share Image
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits. — Andre Gide Forty Copy Share Image
It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought… — Andre Gide Awakening Copy Share Image
The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow… — Andre Gide Art Copy Share Image
I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and several times, from… — Andre Gide Accounts Copy Share Image
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in… — Andre Gide Able Copy Share Image
The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of… — Andre Gide Action 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
