Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
ANDRE GIDESociety knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
ANDRE GIDEPrejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDEGod depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDEArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEProfound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDENothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
ANDRE GIDEThe 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 GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDEArt begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDEThe color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDEEverything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEPoverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDEA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDE