# Quote — André Gide, The Immoralist

> I cannot apply to myself the distinctions and the reservations they insist on making—I exist only as a whole man. I lay claim to nothing but my own nature, and the pleasure I take in an action is my clue to its propriety

- Author: [André Gide](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andre-gide.md)
- Book: [The Immoralist](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andre-gide/the-immoralist.md)
- Page: 104
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Immoralist#Quotes) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/andre-gide/the-immoralist/i-cannot-apply

## More from this book

> Today beauty no longer acts, and action no longer bothers about being beautiful.

p. 111 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andre-gide/the-immoralist/today-beauty-no-longer.md)

> What distinguished me from the rest was what mattered; what no one but I … could say—that was what I had to say.

p. 92 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andre-gide/the-immoralist/what-distinguished-me-from.md)

> What interest could I take in myself, except as a perfectible being? This unknown perfection, vaguely as I imagined it, exalted my will as never before in my longing to achieve it; I dedicated this will utterly to fortifying my body.

p. 51 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/andre-gide/the-immoralist/what-interest-could.md)