André Gide

“The color of truth is gray.”

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

“Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.”

“The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.”

“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.”

“There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.”

“Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.”

“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”

“The most decisive actions of our life are most often unconsidered actions.”

“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.”

“Sin is whatever obscures the soul.”

“It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves—in finding themselves.”

“Wisdom comes not from experience, but from meditating on experience.”

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe... no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”

“Dare to be yourself.”