Quotes by : André Gide

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.

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

Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.

To know how to free oneself is nothing the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom

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

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;....

Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature!

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.