Andre Gide

Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.

André Gide

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes.

André Gide

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.

André Gide

To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

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

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

André Gide

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

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

Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.

André Gide

We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

André Gide