What did Andre Gide mean by: I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan’t be able to prevent. Andre Gide Author · France Copy
+ Only fools don’t contradict themselves Author, September 23, 2023January 2, 2025, Andre Gide, Contradiction, Folly, Wisdom, 0 Andre Gide Author · France
+ Solitude is bearable only with God. Author, June 25, 2023January 2, 2025, Andre Gide, Comfort, Faith, Solitude, 0 Andre Gide Author · France
+ A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned Author, June 18, 2023January 2, 2025, Andre Gide, Control, Ownership, Possession, 0 Andre Gide Author · France
+ Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured. Author, August 6, 2023January 2, 2025, Andre Gide, Optimism, Resilience, Torture, 0 Andre Gide Author · France
+ Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age. Author, June 16, 2023January 2, 2025, Andre Gide, Aging, Chastity, Youth, 0 Andre Gide Author · France
+ The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Andre Gide, Adoration, Blasphemy, Pettiness, 0 Andre Gide Author · France
+ If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast! Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Andre Gide, Connection, Longing, Reflection, 0 Andre Gide Author · France
+ A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly. Read explanation Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Andre Gide, Growth, Self-discovery, Transformation, 0 Andre Gide Author · France
Since the day of my birth, my death began its walk. It is walking toward me, without hurrying. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
I’m not willing just to be tolerated. That wounds my love of love and of liberty. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go. Jean de La Fontaine Poet · France
