It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDEIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDEThe color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDEIn other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDESo long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDENothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
ANDRE GIDEWe should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDEI wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDEThe true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
ANDRE GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDESociety knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
ANDRE GIDEWelcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDESin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDEBelieve those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDEPoverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDE