A great man's failures to understand define him.
--André Gide
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
--André Gide
Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
--André Gide
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
--André Gide
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
--André Gide
Everything in me calls out to be revised, amended, re-educated.
--André Gide
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
--André Gide
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
--André Gide
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
--André Gide
Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
--André Gide
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
--André Gide
Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
--André Gide
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
--André Gide
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist's business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it is up to the reader to provide him.
--André Gide
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
--André Gide
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
--André Gide
The most decisive actions of our life- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future- are, more often than not, unconsidered.
--André Gide
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
--André Gide
The wise man is astonished by anything.
--André Gide
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
--André Gide
There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
--André Gide
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
--André Gide
True kindness presupposes the faculty of imagining as one's own the suffering and joys of others.
--André Gide
We call 'happiness' a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.
--André Gide
What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
--André Gide
When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
--André Gide
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
--André Gide
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