Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDEMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDEYou have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDEGod depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDEPrejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDEI wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDEThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDEArt begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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 GIDEThe color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDEIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDEFear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEWe should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDEToo chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE