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

Quote by Andre Gide

Topics: Hate Quotes, Love Quotes

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back...

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back...

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Solitude is bearable only with God

Solitude is bearable only with God

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and...

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does...

Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does...

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

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

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

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what...

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what...

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece...

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece...

Not everyone can be an orphan.

Not everyone can be an orphan.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image....

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image....

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes

I know I am beautiful. I know I am strong. Because I love myself, and...

I know I am beautiful. I know I am strong. Because I love myself, and...

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.

Beauty is grace and confidence. I've learned to accept and appreciate what nature gave me.