God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDEGod depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDEBe faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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 GIDESeize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
ANDRE GIDEA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDEThe capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDEHe who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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 GIDETo know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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 GIDEFear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRE GIDEThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDEDare to be yourself.
ANDRE GIDEThe color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDE