André Gide

Please do not understand me too quickly.
-André Gide

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

Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.
-André Gide

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

Dare to be yourself.
-André Gide

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
-André Gide

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
-André Gide

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
-André Gide

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
-André Gide

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
-André Gide

The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
-André Gide

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
-André Gide

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