385 Quotes by Andre Gide

The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.

With each book you write you should lose the admirers you gained with the previous one.

Prejudices are the props of civilization.

It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought just as I did, and that I found in them rather an authorization than an awakening. Above all, they taught me to cease doubting, to cease fearing my thoughts, and to let those thoughts lead me to those lands that were not uninhabitable because after all I found them already there .

Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.