We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDEWe should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDEYou have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDENothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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 GIDEArt begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDEToo chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDEThe capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEFear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRE GIDEBelieve those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDEThere are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEA man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDEArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDE