There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. — Andre Gide Art Copy Share Image
With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one. — Andre Gide Admirer Copy Share Image
The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions. — Andre Gide Life Copy Share Image
The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black. — Andre Gide Black Copy Share Image
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune… — Andre Gide Able Copy Share Image
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. — Andre Gide Believe Copy Share Image
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime. — Andre Gide Crime Copy Share Image
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. — Andre Gide Courage Copy Share Image
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many… — Andre Gide Beautiful Copy Share Image
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. — Andre Gide Beautiful Copy Share Image
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by… — Andre Gide Angle Copy Share Image
An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and… — Andre Gide Absent 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
I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone. — Andre Gide Advise Copy Share Image
Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so… — Andre Gide Banality Copy Share Image
A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly — Andre Gide Butterfly Copy Share Image
There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is — André Gide Cure Copy Share Image
“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.” — André Gide Communication Copy Share Image
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see… — Andre Gide Books Copy Share Image
