André Gide Quotes

الطريق المستقيم لا يؤدي إلا إلى الهدف.

به راستی چقدر کارها آسان میشد اگر انسان ها بسیاری از سهل‌انگاری های خود را به نام دور اندیشی و خیرخواهی توجیه نمی‌کردند.

Aren’t you strong enough to walk alone? We must each of us find God by ourselves.

Life was nothing other than what came and went with each passing moment.

You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

I gazed at myself, no longer with shame, but with joy. I felt, if not exactly strong, then at least potentially so, harmonious, sensuous, almost beautiful.

[...] je ne savais rien exprimer du transport nouveau de mon cœur; mais je pressais sa tête contre mon cœur et sur son front mes lèvres par où mon âme s'écoulait.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you

I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

Ya no me atengo al suelo; me mezo en la extremidad de un rayo de sol.

It's madness to envy other people's happiness. Happiness doesn't come of the peg, it has to be made to measure.

Toutes choses sont dites déjà ; mais comme personne n'écoute, il faut toujours recommencer.

El hombre no puede descubrir nuevos océanos a menos que tenga el coraje de perder de vista la costa.

Leo demasiado; todo eso fermenta.