Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDESin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDEDare to be yourself.
ANDRE GIDEThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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 GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEEnvying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had 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 GIDENothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
ANDRE GIDEEvery instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDEThere are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDEI do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRE GIDEWisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRE GIDEFish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDEProfound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDEFear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRE GIDEBe faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDE