Andre Gide
17 quotations
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Not everyone can be an orphan.
The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.