The abominable effort to take ones sins with one to paradise. – Andre Gide
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. – Andre Gide
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrows joy is possible only if todays makes way for it that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one. – Andre Gide
No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond. – Andre Gide
The color of truth is gray. – Andre 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. – Andre Gide
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences. – Andre Gide
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. – Andre Gide
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself. – Andre Gide
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness. – Andre Gide
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. – Andre Gide
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – Andre Gide
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. – Andre Gide
Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon. – Andre Gide
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – Andre Gide
There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome. – Andre Gide
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity. – Andre Gide
Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor. – Andre Gide
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. – Andre Gide
It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. – Andre Gide
