Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRE GIDEWisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
ANDRE GIDESo long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDEHe who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
ANDRE GIDEKnow that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
ANDRE GIDEFear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRE GIDESeize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
ANDRE GIDEEvery instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDEBe faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDEWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDEProfound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDEArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDEArt begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDE