Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
ANDRE GIDENothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEA man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDEA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDEWe should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDEHe who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
ANDRE GIDEDare to be yourself.
ANDRE GIDESin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDESociety knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
ANDRE GIDESeize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
ANDRE GIDEIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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 GIDEPlease do not understand me too quickly.
ANDRE GIDEBe faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDESo long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDE