4 Andre Gide Quotes on Change

Andre Gide quotes on change

29. 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.

34. One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

46. 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.

51. Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.