385 Quotes by Andre Gide

The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”

I advise the young to tell themselves constantly that most often it is up to them alone.

It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being.

Sadness is a state of sin.

The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.

Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.