Dare to be yourself.
ANDRE GIDEDare to be yourself.
ANDRE GIDEWhat would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
ANDRE GIDEA man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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 GIDEOne does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDEBelieve those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDESociety knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
ANDRE GIDEThere is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
ANDRE GIDEIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDEI can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
ANDRE GIDEBe faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDEA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDEOnly those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRE GIDEFear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRE GIDEThe capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDE