Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDEFish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDEArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
ANDRE GIDEThere are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDEThere are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
ANDRE GIDEPlease do not understand me too quickly.
ANDRE GIDEA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDE‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDEWhat would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEWelcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDEToo chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
ANDRE GIDEPoverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDEMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDEEverything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDE