Andre Gide Quotes

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change. - Andre Gide

Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone. - Andre Gide

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told. - Andre Gide

What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer. - Andre Gide

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yourself indispensable. - Andre Gide

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. - Andre Gide

Understanding is the beginning of approving. - Andre Gide

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age. - Andre Gide

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations. - 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

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