Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
ANDRE GIDESeize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
ANDRE GIDEWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDEDare to be yourself.
ANDRE GIDEEvery instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDETo know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
ANDRE GIDEGod depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDEPoverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEYou have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDEWhat would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
ANDRE GIDEThe true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRE GIDESadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
ANDRE GIDEA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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 GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDEBe faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDE