385 Quotes by Andre Gide

And suddenly I was seized with a desire, a craving, something more furious and more imperious than I had ever felt before—to live! I want to live! I will live. I clenched my teeth, my hands, concentrated my whole being in this wild, grief-stricken endeavour towards existence.

There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity.

She already loved me too much to see me as I was.

I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to encroach on me. It is out of the utter forgetfulness of yesterday that I create every new hour's freshness. It is never enough for me to have been happy. I do not believe in dead things and cannot distinguish between being no more and never having been.

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

Le présent serait plein de tous les avenirs, si le passé n'y projetait déjà une histoire.

Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.

Take me away from here and give me some reason for living. I have none left. I have freed myself. That may be. But what does it signify? This objectless liberty is a burden to me.

Everything which formerly distressed me is now a delicious pleasure.