385 Quotes by Andre Gide

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.

To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.

Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.

We no longer admit any other truth than that which is expedient; for there is no worse error than the truth that may weaken the arm that is fighting.

There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.

The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.