+ It is good to follow one’s own bent, so long as it leads upward. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Andre Gide, Growth, Individuality, Success, 0 Andre Gide Author · France
+ There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Andre Gide, Action, Courage, Possibility, 0 Andre Gide Author · France
+ Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Andre Gide, Awkwardness, Ego, Insincerity, 0 Andre Gide Author · France
+ Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Andre Gide, Empathy, Illness, Sympathy, 0 Andre Gide Author · France
+ The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Andre Gide, Death, Elements, Nature, 0 Andre Gide Author · France
+ Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Andre Gide, Giving, Possession, Vulnerability, 0 Andre Gide Author · France
+ Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. Author, January 9, 2024January 6, 2025, Andre Gide, Artist, Collaboration, God, 0 Andre Gide Author · France
+ Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great. Author, June 22, 2023January 2, 2025, Andre Gide, Achievement, Greatness, Spirituality, 0 Andre Gide Author · France
The extreme limit of wisdom, that’s what the public calls madness. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them. Read explanation Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Read explanation François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
Numberless arts appear foolish whose secret motives are most wise and weighty. Read explanation François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
