A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly — Andre Gide Butterfly Copy Share Image
There is a law in life: When one door closes to us another one opens. — Andre Gide Door Copy Share Image
The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself… — Andre Gide Disease Copy Share Image
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation. — Andre Gide Childhood Copy Share Image
How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch. — Andre Gide Branches Copy Share Image
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not -Andre Gide — Andre Gide Be yourself Copy Share Image
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore. — Andre Gide Accepting change Copy Share Image
Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend. — Andre Gide Complexes Copy Share Image
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. — Andre Gide Different Copy Share Image
An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not… — Andre Gide Accepted Copy Share Image
The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to… — Andre Gide Abnegation Copy Share Image
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? Nothing, except what prepares and then what… — Andre Gide Creation Copy Share Image
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your truth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself. It… — Andre Gide Potentialities Copy Share Image
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real… — Andre Gide Age 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
“What was doubly disconcerting for me was that he showed such extraordinary and precocious insight in describing his own feelings that I… — André Gide Disconcerting 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
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
When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent. — Andre Gide Hide Copy Share Image
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours? — Andre Gide Apathy Copy Share Image
“Nothing can make a face more impenetrable than the mask of kindliness.” — André Gide Impenetrable Copy Share Image
“Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.” — André Gide Comes Copy Share Image
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling. — Andre Gide Belly Copy Share Image
There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open. — Andre Gide Door Copy Share Image
