The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity. — Andre Gide Deception Copy Share Image
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death — Andre Gide Death Copy Share Image
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection. — Andre Gide Complicated Copy Share Image
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. — Andre Gide Adventure Copy Share Image
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. — 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
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one… — Andre Gide Rest Copy Share Image
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. — Andre Gide Experience Copy Share Image
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it;… — Andre Gide Beauty Copy Share Image
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands… — Andre Gide Beauty Copy Share Image
The anxiety we have for the figure we cut, for our personage, is constantly cropping out. We are showing off and are… — Andre Gide Anxiety Copy Share Image
“Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not… — André Gide Attraction Copy Share Image
They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is… — Andre Gide Action Copy Share Image
Enduring fame is promised only to those writers who can offer to successive generations a substance constantly renewed; for every generation arrives… — Andre Gide Endure 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
Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe… — Andre Gide Breathe 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
“After much searching I have found the thing that sets me apart: a sort of stubborn attachment to evil.” — André Gide Evil Copy Share Image
Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because… — Andre Gide Becoming Copy Share Image
“Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.” — André Gide Doubt Copy Share Image
Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man. — Andre Gide All things 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
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most. — Andre Gide Deep thought Copy Share Image
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. — Andre Gide Attempt Copy Share Image
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. — Andre Gide Art Copy Share Image
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. — Andre Gide Artificial Copy Share Image
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes — Andre Gide Great man Copy Share Image
To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to… — Andre Gide Bruises Copy Share Image
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient… — Andre Gide Combat Copy Share Image
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish. — Andre Gide Continually 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
“Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.” — Andre Gide Communication Copy Share Image
It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of… — Andre Gide Able Copy Share Image
One should want only one thing and want it constantly. Then one is sure of getting it. But I desire everything, and… — Andre Gide Desire Copy Share Image
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up. — Andre Gide Age 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
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain. — Andre Gide Complaining Copy Share Image
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered… — Andre Gide Flower Copy Share Image
Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to… — Andre Gide Able Copy Share Image
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others. — Andre Gide Empathy Copy Share Image
