André Gide

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
-André Gide

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
-André Gide

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
-André Gide

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
-André Gide

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It's their way of falling.
-André Gide

The color of truth is gray.
-André Gide

Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it — or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.
-André Gide

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
-André Gide