God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDEPrejudices are the props of civilization.
More Andre Gide Quotes
-
-
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDE -
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
ANDRE GIDE -
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDE -
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDE -
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDE -
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE -
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
ANDRE GIDE -
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDE -
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDE -
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDE -
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDE -
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
ANDRE GIDE -
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRE GIDE -
There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
ANDRE GIDE -
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRE GIDE