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

André Gide

“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”

André Gide

Si le grain ne meurt [If It Die] (1924), ch. III
Source: Autumn Leaves

“A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned”

André Gide book The Immoralist

Source: The Immoralist

“The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious.”

André Gide

Entry for August 23, 1926
Journals 1889-1949

“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.”

André Gide book The Immoralist

Savoir se libérer n'est rien; l'ardu, c'est savoir être libre. <br class="br">The Immoralist, Chapter 1 http://books.google.com/books?id=MPmRAAAAIAAJ&q=%22Savoir+se+lib%C3%A9rer+n'est+rien+l'ardu+c'est+savoir+%C3%AAtre+libre%22&jtp=17#v=onepage (1902) <br class="br">The Immoralist (1902)

“The great artists are the ones who dare to entitle to beauty things so natural that when they’re seen afterward, people say: Why did I never realize before that this too was beautiful?”

André Gide book The Immoralist

Source: The Immoralist (1902), p. 159