André Gide Quotes

Je ne me sens jamais vivre plus intensément que quand je m'échappe à moi-même pour devenir n'importe qui.

I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

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.

Je voudrais mourir à présent, vite, avant d'avoir compris de nouveau que je suis seule.

Svaka vrlo jaka osetljivost može, prema tome da li je organizam otporan ili slab, postati, ja bar mislim, uzrok uživanja ili neugodnosti.

"Oh," I thought, "without a doubt, everything in my life is falling to pieces. Nothing that my hand grasps can my hand hold."

Je suis un être de dialogue ; tout en moi combat et se contredit. Les Mémoires ne sont jamais qu'à demi sincères, si grand que soit le souci de vérité : tout est toujours plus compliqué qu'on ne le dit. Peut-être même approche-t-on de plus près la vérité dans le roman.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

"One must allow other people to be right," he used to say when he was insulted, "It consoles them for not being anything else."

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.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.

J'aurais voulu pleurer, mais je sentais mon cœur plus aride que le désert.

We who would seek new land must be willing to sacrifice the sight of shore for a long, long time.

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