Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDEArt begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDEMan is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
ANDRE GIDEWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDEOnly those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRE GIDEI can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
ANDRE GIDEProfound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDESociety knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDETo read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
ANDRE GIDEThere are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRE GIDEToo chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDEA man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDEPrejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDEA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDEWisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRE GIDEThe color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDE