Happy Birthday André Paul Guillaume Gide

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
—André Gide

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
—André Gide

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
—André Gide

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
—André Gide

Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
—André Gide

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
—André Gide

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself—and thus make yourself indispensable.
—André Gide

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
—André Gide

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
—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

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
—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

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
—André Gide

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
—André Gide

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
—André Gide

The color of truth is gray.
—André Gide

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
—André Gide