The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRE GIDEThe true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDENothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
ANDRE GIDESin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDEThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDEThere is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
ANDRE GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEWelcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDEEnvying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDEOnly those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRE GIDENothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEI do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRE GIDEGod depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDEArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDEMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDEIn other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDE