“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us.”
More from André Gide
“Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt…”
“I must learn to keep silent. I must learn to take myself seriously. To have more mobile…”
“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait…”
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”