Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Andre Gide

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Andre Gide

No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond.
Andre Gide

Not everyone can be an orphan.
Andre Gide

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
Andre Gide

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Andre Gide

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon.
Andre Gide

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

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

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
Andre Gide

The color of truth is gray.
Andre Gide

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Andre Gide

The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
Andre Gide

The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
Andre Gide

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Andre Gide

The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
Andre Gide

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
Andre Gide

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Andre Gide

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.
Andre Gide

"Therefore" is a word the poet must not know.
Andre Gide