The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDEThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDEYou have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDETo know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
ANDRE GIDEEnvying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDEDare to be yourself.
ANDRE GIDESin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDEEvery instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDEProfound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDEI do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRE GIDENothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEThere are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRE GIDEOnly those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRE GIDEHe who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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 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 GIDEArt begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDE