"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
— André Gide

"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the
shore."
— André Gide

"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."
— André Gide

"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity."
— André Gide

"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."
— André Gide

"The color of truth is grey."
— André Gide

"Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.





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— André Gide

"Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again."
— André Gide

"One dosen't discover new lands without consenting to loose sight of the shore for a very long time."
— André Gide

"I do not love men: I love what devours them."
— André Gide (Prometheus Illbound)

"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."
— André Gide

"ose devenir qui tu es"
— André Gide

"Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it."
— André Gide (The Immoralist)

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

"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."
— André Gide

"Je pars simplement pour partir, la surprise meme est mon but - l'imprevu - Comprennez-vous?"
— André Gide

"The color of truth is gray."
— André Gide

"God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved."
— 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

"Jette mon livre; dis-toi bien que ce n'est là qu'une des mille postures possibles en face de la vie. Cherche la tienne. Ce qu'un autre aurait aussi bien fait que toi, ne le fais pas. Ce qu'un autre aurait aussi bien dit que toi, ne le dis pas, -- aussi bien écrit que toi, ne l'écris pas. Ne t'attache en toi qu'à ce que tu sens qui n'est nulle part ailleurs qu'en toi-même, et crée de toi, impatiemment ou patiemment, ah! le plus irremplaçable des êtres."
— André Gide

"'You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.'"
— André Gide (The Immoralist)

"I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near."
— André Gide

"We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
— André Gide

"No hay problemas, solo soluciones."
— André Gide

"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."
— André Gide

"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."
— André Gide

"Que toute émotion sache te devenir une ivresse. Si ce que tu manges ne te grise pas, c'est que tu n'avais pas assez faim."
— André Gide (Les Nourritures Terrestres)

"Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?"
— André Gide

"Ante ciertos libros, uno se pregunta: ¿quién los leerá? Y ante ciertas personas uno se pregunta: ¿qué leerán? Y al fin, libros y personas se encuentran."
— André Gide

"Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured."
— André Gide

"Martyr, c'est pourir un peu."
— André Gide

"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."
— André Gide

"The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?"
— André Gide (The Immoralist)

"The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating."
— 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 has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again"
— André Gide

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"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
"
— André Gide

"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
— André Gide

""It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
"
— 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 has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again"
— 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 has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again"
— André Gide

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again"
— André Gide