There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRE GIDEThere are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRE GIDEThe capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDESociety knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
ANDRE GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEEnvying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDESin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDEWelcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDEThe color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDEA man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDEArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
ANDRE GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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 GIDEArt begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDE