It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDEA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDEWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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 GIDEI wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDEPrejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDETo know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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 GIDESin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDEIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDESo long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDEThe capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDEThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDEEnvying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDEPlease do not understand me too quickly.
ANDRE GIDEThere is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
ANDRE GIDE