Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEThe capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDESadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
ANDRE GIDEIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDEEverything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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 GIDEOne does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDEWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDESin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDEI can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
ANDRE GIDEArt begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDETo know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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 GIDEThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDE