Andre Gide

After much searching I have found the thing that sets me apart: a sort of stubborn attachment to evil.

André Gide

An artist cannot get along without a public; and when the public is absent, what does he do? He invents it, and turning his back on his age, he looks toward the future for what the present denies.

André Gide

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

André Gide

An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.

André Gide

Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship.

André Gide

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.

André Gide

Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.

André Gide

Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

André Gide

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

André Gide

But I think there comes a point in love, a unique moment which later on the soul seeks in vain to surpass, and that the effort to revive such happiness depletes it; that nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.

André Gide