Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
ANDRE GIDEThere are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDEArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDEEverything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDEProfound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDEMan is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
ANDRE GIDEKnow that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
ANDRE GIDEFear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRE GIDEA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDEThe capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDEPoverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDEBe faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDE