385 Quotes by Andre Gide

Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

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.

The wise man is astonished by anything.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.

It is now, and in this world, that we must live.