We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see. — Andre Gide Enjoy 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
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. — Andre Gide Admirable 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
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
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
“El hombre no puede descubrir nuevos océanos a menos que tenga el coraje de perder de vista la costa.” — André Gide Amor Copy Share Image
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it. — Andre Gide Another man 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
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
The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the… — Andre Gide Art 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
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
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
To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have… — Andre Gide Anguish Copy Share Image
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could… — Andre Gide Care Copy Share Image
“For what use is it to forbid what we can't prevent? If books are forbidden, children read them on the sly.” — André Gide Books Copy Share Image
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness — Andre Gide Closed door 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
By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked. — Andre Gide Answer Copy Share Image
“It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for something you are not.” — Andre Gide Better Copy Share Image
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. — Andre Gide Happiness Copy Share Image
“I hated the homes, the families, all the places where man thinks to find rest.” — André Gide Family Copy Share Image
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. — Andre Gide Arise Copy Share Image
What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has… — Andre Gide Draws 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
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness? — Andre Gide Creation 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
Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself. — Andre Gide Attributes Copy Share Image
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. — Andre Gide Art Copy Share Image
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. — Andre Gide Art Copy Share Image
Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself. — Andre Gide Capable Copy Share Image
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring... — Andre Gide Awkward Copy Share Image
The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it… — Andre Gide Empty Copy Share Image
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them. — Andre Gide Appetite Copy Share Image
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! — Andre Gide Change Copy Share Image
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves. — Andre Gide Counterfeit Copy Share Image
“What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.” — Andre Gide Happiness Copy Share Image
“Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.” — André Gide Philosophical 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
