Andre Gide Quotes

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

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

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Dare to be yourself.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.'

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