"The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say — because they were too obvious."
- André Gide
"Because it was natural, could he not see that it was marvelous? Poor creature!"
"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 I was once more aware of my senses enabled me to ..."
"Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure."
"Those who complimented me were those who understood me the least."
"There is a germ of revolt lying in the spirit of inquiry and critical curiosity."
"He let Julius go. There was beginning to rise in him a feeling of profound disgust--a kind of hatred almost, of himself, of Julius, of everything."
"One can always find hands for a work of destruction."
"Will it be here that we shall find a place which will not elude us, or which if it remains does not exert on us a culpable attraction? Or must we, leaning over the deck and watching the shores glide b..."
"I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path."