It did not take long to conclude that, without God, would never come to understand where the universe began and where it ended, where it came from him, where he would go
Only that which is not said is sincere.
Dante would not have forgotten: they say that when Dante was a boy, he was asked: Dante what is the best food? to test his memory. Eggs, replied Dante. Years later, when Dante was a grown man, he was asked only: how? and Dante replied: fried.
Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine.
Everything one sees is merely a projection of what one does not see, its true nature and substance.