Quotes by : André Gide

What would be the description of happines? Nothing, except what prepares and then what destroys it, can....

I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to encroach....

Rather than recount his life as he has lived it, he must live his life as he will recount it.

There's no better cure for the fear of taking after one's father, than not to know who he is.

In a world in which everyone cheats, it's the honest man who passes for a charlatan.

Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could....

Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.

I hoped at first to find a rather more direct comprehension of life in one or two novelists and poets;....

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

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.