Andre Gide Thinking Quotations

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

The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating.

Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

The reasons that drive me to write are many and the most important are the most secret, I think. Perhaps most of all this: to put something out of death's reach.

Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.

The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

Do not think your truth can be found by anyone else.