Quotes by : André Gide

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

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

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

I say, "it seemed to me," for from the depths of my past childhood, there now awoke in me the glimmerings....

Those who have eyes…do not know their happiness.

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower....

She already loved me too much to see me as I was.

Nothing can make a face more impenetrable than the mask of kindliness.

He let Julius go. There was beginning to rise in him a feeling of profound disgust--a kind of hatred....

What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then....