Prejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDEPrejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDEThe true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRE GIDEA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDEPlease do not understand me too quickly.
ANDRE GIDESadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
ANDRE GIDEHe who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
ANDRE GIDEFish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDEProfound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDEOnly those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRE GIDEYou have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDEToo chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDEMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
ANDRE GIDEBelieve those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDE