Quotes By Author: Andre Gide

“Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.”

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

“The color of truth is grey.”

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

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

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

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”