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Andre Gide - From the Activity category:
The most decisive actions of our life are most often the unconsidered actions. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Adventure category:
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Ambition category:
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Art category:
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Beauty category:
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Belief category:
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Collaboration category:
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Colour category:
The color of truth is gray. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Criticism category:
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Difficulty category:
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Drunkenness category:
Drunkenness is never anything but a substitute for happiness. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Faith category:
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Fear category:
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Freedom category:
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Friendship category:
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Genius category:
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Greatness category:
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Happiness category:
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Ideas category:
Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Importance category:
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Insecurity category:
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Interpretation category:
To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Journey category:
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Joy category:
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Life category:
It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Listening category:
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Perseverance category:
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Poetry category:
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Possessions category:
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Satisfaction category:
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise accompanying joy and, as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Strength category:
The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Travel category:
To 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 Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Understanding category:
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. (Andre Gide)
Andre Gide - From the Writing category:
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written. (Andre Gide)
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