Quote #37
'The dogs bark but the caravan rolls on' (in response to critics)
More from Andre Gide
- So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
- The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
- Perverting the young! As if initiation in sexual pleasure was in itself an act of perversion! In general it is quite the opposite!'
- The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
- One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
- The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say- because they were too obvious.
- Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
- The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.