Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDEToo chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDESeize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
ANDRE GIDEThe color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDEProfound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDEWelcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDESo long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDEPoverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDEI can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEPrejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDEThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDEI do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRE GIDEWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDEBelieve those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDEThere is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
ANDRE GIDE