Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRE GIDEWisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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 GIDESo long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDEFear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRE GIDEThe true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRE GIDEBe faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDEArt begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDEGod depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDESin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDEWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDEThere are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDESadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDE