Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
André Gide quote The abominable effort to take one's sins with one to paradise.
André Gide quote The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
André Gide quote The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.
André Gide quote The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
André Gide quote It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
André Gide quote It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor.
André Gide quote Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
André Gide quote Biography
French novelist and critic 1869-1957
