I do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRE GIDEI do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRE GIDENothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
ANDRE GIDEWe should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDEMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDEProfound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDEBelieve those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDEThe color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDEThe capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDEEvery instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDEArt begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDEFish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDESadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
ANDRE GIDEWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDE