Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDEWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDETo read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
ANDRE GIDEI can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
ANDRE GIDEPlease do not understand me too quickly.
ANDRE GIDESadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDENothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEThe color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDESociety knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEEnvying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDEOne does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDEPrejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDEA man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDE