André Gide said this quote

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

~ André Gide

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

~ André Gide

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

~ André Gide

Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

~ André Gide