ANDRE GIDE

Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves--in finding themselves.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks-and especially admit of different interpretations.

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