"I hoped at first to find a rather more direct comprehension of life in one or two novelists and poets; but if they really had such a comprehension, it...

Photo by Ákos Szabó

Photo by Ian Turnell










I do not love men: I love what devours them.

More André Gide quotes
"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
"Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws o...
"I say, "it seemed to me," for from the depths of my past childhood, there now awoke in me the glimmerings of a thousand lost sensations. The fact that...