I do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRé GIDE There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRé GIDE When I got back to Marceline, I did not conceal from her how tedious I found all these acquaintances...
ANDRé GIDE In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...
ANDRé GIDE It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRé GIDE Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRé GIDE Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRé GIDE I cannot," said he, "expect everyone to have my virtues. It's good enough to meet with my vices...
ANDRé GIDE This is my thesis: Do you know what is needful to turn an honest man into a rogue! A change of scene...
ANDRé GIDE We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRé GIDE Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRé GIDE Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
ANDRé GIDE It is better to be hated for what you are than be loved for something you are not.
ANDRé GIDE Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-impo...
ANDRé GIDE Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating ...
ANDRé GIDE The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — b...
ANDRé GIDE Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRé GIDE A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly
ANDRé GIDE Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.
ANDRé GIDE You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore
ANDRé GIDE You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not be...
ANDRé GIDE He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
ANDRé GIDE Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRé GIDE Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else coul...
ANDRé GIDE Please do not understand me too quickly.
ANDRé GIDE Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again.
ANDRé GIDE The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRé GIDE Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRé GIDE The color of truth is grey.
ANDRé GIDE We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of oursel...
ANDRé GIDE Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRé GIDE Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRé GIDE Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life...
ANDRé GIDE On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout ri...
ANDRé GIDE Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.
ANDRé GIDE God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRé GIDE Dare to be yourself
ANDRé GIDE One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRé GIDE Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything m...
ANDRé GIDE Most people believe it is only by constraint they can get any good out of themselves, and so they li...
ANDRé GIDE I have a horror of rest; possessions encourage one to indulge in it, and there's nothing like securi...
ANDRé GIDE I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I tak...
ANDRé GIDE Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not ...
ANDRé GIDE My wish is that you may be loved to the point of madness.
ANDRé BRETON Man is not what he thinks he is, he is what he hides.
ANDRé MALRAUX The white dogs with black spots were the worst. It wasn't so much their aggression; other dogs were ...
ANDRé ALEXIS To respect the dignity of a relationship also implies accepting the end when it comes. Except in my ...
ANDRé BRINK To think that I had almost fallen for the skin of his hands, his chest, his feet that had never touc...
ANDRé ACIMAN This authority stood steady as the cathedral itself. The building was raised once and for all, and f...
ANDRé BJERKE The cinema substitutes for our gaze a world more in harmony with our desires.
ANDRé BAZIN What is Man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
ANDRé MALRAUX How I admired people who talked about their vices as though they were distant relatives they'd learn...
ANDRé ACIMAN There are fairy stories to be written for adults. Stories that are still in a green state.
ANDRé BRETON I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so co...
ANDRé BRETON In love, no question is ever preposterous.
ANDRé BRINK Agent Tanner sagte, dass die NSA sich etwas einfallen lasseb will. Anselm und Hannah haben sich eben...
MARTINA ANDRé We are in a crisis today because the practical consensus between the left and the right, linking eco...
ANDRé GLUCKSMANN In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.
ANDRé MAUROIS The attempt to force human beings to despise themselves is what I call hell.
ANDRé MALRAUX The man who cannot visualize a horse galloping on a tomato is an idiot.
ANDRé BRETON The index, however, remains well below the peak of 60 reached in July last year.
ANDRé ROUX We had never taken a shower together. We had never even been in the same bathroom together. "Don't f...
ANDRé ACIMAN It would never have occurred to him that in placing the apricot in my palm he was giving me his ass ...
ANDRé ACIMAN The mind, placed before any kind of difficulty, can find an ideal outlet in the absurd. Accommodatio...
ANDRé BRETON The reading of a fine book is an uninterrupted dialogue in which the book speaks and our soul replie...
ANDRé MAUROIS My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where mea...
ANDRé BRINK What is admirable about the fantastic is that there is no longer anything fantastic: there is only t...
ANDRé BRETON We all wear masks, and the time comes when we cannot remove them without removing some of our own sk...
ANDRé BERTHIAUME The manufacturing sector may be benefiting from the re-acceleration in global industrial production ...
ANDRé ROUX On balance, purchasing managers remain hesitant in the current manufacturing business climate.
ANDRé ROUX This confirms that manufacturing conditions are under pressure.
ANDRé ROUX This indicates that manufacturing activity picked up somewhat in December following the slowdown in ...
ANDRé ROUX Honestly, do we ask Jean Charest where he bought his pot from? If the person who sold him pot had li...
ANDRé BOISCLAIR They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.
ANDRé BRETON Be careful--with quotations, you can damn anything.
ANDRé MALRAUX The index is now well above the break-even level of 50, and points to a solid revival in the manufac...
ANDRé ROUX I accept with humility and with great enthusiasm the mandate you have given me.
ANDRé BOISCLAIR Mrs. Jean was not participating in a private event. Mrs. Jean was participating in a public event, t...
ANDRé BOISCLAIR Nothing that surrounds us is object, all is subject.
ANDRé BRETON The imaginary is what tends to become real.
ANDRé BRETON There is always a need for intoxication: China has opium, Islam has hashish, the West has woman.
ANDRé MALRAUX At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suf...
ANDRé BRETON I am the soul in limbo.
ANDRé BRETON Our bodies won't have secrets now.
ANDRé ACIMAN I've never had problems of consumption. I have never been in a situation where I was under the influ...
ANDRé BOISCLAIR (speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshnes...
ANDRé BRETON People who read are hiders. They hide who they are. People who hide don’t always like who they are...
ANDRé ACIMAN I think everyone is wounded in their sex,” I said. “I can’t think of one person who isn’t.
ANDRé ACIMAN The purest surrealist act is walking into a crowd with a loaded gun and firing into it randomly
ANDRé BRETON Past and future monopolize the poet’s sensory and intellectual faculties, detached from the immedi...
ANDRé BRETON The lamentable expression: 'But it was only a dream", the increasing use of which - among others in ...
ANDRé BRETON Uma palavra e tudo está salvo
Uma palavra e tudo está perdido.
ANDRé BRETON Was our intimacy paid for in the wrong currency? Or is intimacy the desired product no matter where ...
ANDRé ACIMAN Benjy's greatest wish was for a place where the echelon was clear to all, where the powerful cared f...
ANDRé ALEXIS Often we allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. We lose many irre...
ANDRé MAUROIS Was he my home, then, my homecoming? You are my homecoming. When I’m with you and we’re well tog...
ANDRé ACIMAN They are embossed on every song that was a hit that summer, in every novel I read during and after h...
ANDRé ACIMAN It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.
ANDRE GIDE I would like the events never to be told directly by the author, but rather to be introduced (and se...
ANDRE GIDE Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through...
ANDRE GIDE Before I explain my book to others, I expect them to explain it to me. To claim to explain it first ...
ANDRE GIDE All these books have lived together ... inside my mind. They follow one another only on paper and be...
ANDRE GIDE Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined ...
ANDRE GIDE Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
ANDRE GIDE It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them...
ANDRE GIDE Man: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you...
ANDRE GIDE February 13, 1951. No! I cannot claim that with the end of this notebook, of the notebook, al...
ANDRE GIDE There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Le...
ANDRE GIDE The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say -- be...
ANDRE GIDE Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE Obsessions of the Orient, of the desert, of its ardor and its emptiness, of the shadows of palm gard...
ANDRE GIDE It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it...
ANDRE GIDE The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
ANDRE GIDE Humanity cherishes its swaddling clothes; but it shall not grow up unless it can free itself from th...
ANDRE GIDE Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious ...
ANDRE GIDE A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
ANDRE GIDE The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
ANDRE GIDE No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on co...
ANDRE GIDE Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDE It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
ANDRE GIDE Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDE Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDE It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them...
ANDRE GIDE Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone
ANDRE GIDE Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDE The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity
ANDRE GIDE It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them...
ANDRE GIDE Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
ANDRE GIDE Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
ANDRE GIDE It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct the...
ANDRE GIDE It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct the...
ANDRE GIDE Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
ANDRE GIDE Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
ANDRE GIDE There are different kinds of love, but they all have the same aim: possession
ANDRE GIDE It is essential to persuade the soldier that those he is being urged to massacre are bandits who do ...
ANDRE GIDE Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever ...
ANDRE GIDE Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning a...
ANDRE GIDE The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDE It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDE So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDE There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Le...
ANDRE GIDE Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
ANDRE GIDE Not everyone can be an orphan.
ANDRE GIDE I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemi...
ANDRE GIDE Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own developmen...
ANDRE GIDE The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone c...
ANDRE GIDE Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDE Know thyself? A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own developm...
ANDRE GIDE If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so.
ANDRE GIDE Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.
ANDRE GIDE The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole cours...
ANDRE GIDE Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDE The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course...
ANDRE GIDE Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you your...
ANDRE GIDE It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDE It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE Dare to be yourself.
ANDRE GIDE Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
ANDRE GIDE Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.
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ANDRE GIDE Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
ANDRE GIDE Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable
ANDRE GIDE Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if tod...
ANDRE GIDE It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written
ANDRE GIDE Prejudices are the props of civilization
ANDRE GIDE The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - bec...
ANDRE GIDE To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpr...
ANDRE GIDE Understanding is the beginning of approving
ANDRE GIDE He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands upon others
ANDRE GIDE Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less...
ANDRE GIDE One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDE May your joys be as deep as the ocean, your sorrows as light as its foam.
ANDRE GIDE Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has eve...
ANDRE GIDE The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes
ANDRE GIDE If a young writer can refrain from writing, he shouldn't hesitate to do so
ANDRE GIDE Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases
ANDRE GIDE Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not a...
ANDRE GIDE The belief that becomes truth for me - is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best...
ANDRE GIDE The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy...
ANDRE GIDE God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDE Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
ANDRE GIDE Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
ANDRE GIDE I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves
ANDRE GIDE What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as y...
ANDRE GIDE There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDE The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDE At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real ...
ANDRE GIDE It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of t...
ANDRE GIDE In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in ...
ANDRE GIDE Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDE Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own developm...
ANDRE GIDE Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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 tra...
ANDRE GIDE The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations
ANDRE GIDE The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
ANDRE GIDE The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes
ANDRE GIDE The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself
ANDRE GIDE How do you know when the fruit is ripe? - Simple: When it leaves the branch
ANDRE GIDE Hugo - alas!
ANDRE GIDE Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age
ANDRE GIDE