André Gide: Trending quotes

“Please do not understand me too quickly.”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”

“Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.”

“Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.”

“I have my own virtue, which I am constantly cultivating and refining by teaching myself not to tolerate in me or my surroundings anything but the exquisite.”

“The color of truth is grey.”

“Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.”

“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”

“I do not love men: I love what devours them.”

“Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.”

“He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.”

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

“Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.”

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”

“Only fools don't contradict themselves”

“Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But since no one was listening, everything must be said again.”

“Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.”

“One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.”