Quotes by Gide, Andre

Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have thei >>

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies him >>

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward. >>

Quotations about Paradise

From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterne >>

It is difficult to write a paradise when all the superficial indicatio >>

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much be >>

The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.

Gide, Andre