Andre Gide

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

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

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory…

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

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what…

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow’s joy is possible…

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what…

Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has…

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

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does…

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through…

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for…

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself…

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when…

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them…