385 Quotes by Andre Gide

Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.

On ne peut être à la fois sincère et le paraître.

Disease had taken hold of Marceline, never again to leave her; it had marked her, stained her. Henceforth she was a thing that had been spoiled.

الموت يقارب بين ما فرّقته الحياة.

Ante ciertos libros, uno se pregunta: ¿quién los leerá? Y ante ciertas personas uno se pregunta: ¿qué leerán? Y al fin, libros y personas se encuentran.

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back & beginning all over again.

Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least.

What was doubly disconcerting for me was that he showed such extraordinary and precocious insight in describing his own feelings that I felt he was making my own confession.