Andre Gide Long Quotations

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Long only for what you have.

There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

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?

So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.

I have never produced anything good except by a long succession of slight efforts.

The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”