André Gide Quotes

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

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near.

ناتانائیل! ای کاش عظمت در نگاه تو باشد نه در آنچه بدان می نگری...

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.

The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

Existing is occupation enough.

لاشئ يحبط أكثر من الفكر
الذى يلح على الانسان...

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

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

"The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, "seeing that his work was good"."

Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent.

I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation

They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for 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.