Andre Gide
Andre Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gidewas a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947 "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight". Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionAutobiographer
Date of Birth22 November 1869
CountryFrance
We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death
If the flower were not attached to its stem, it would flee at the approach of man, like the insect or the bird; for the attribute of man on the earth, at least as long as he does not better understand his role, is to worry and frighten what he is not interested in taming for utilitarian purposes. Man is skillful in mistreating everything he can use
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.
True intelligence very readily conceives of an intelligence superior to its own; and this is why truly intelligent men are modest.
An unprejudiced mind is probably the rarest thing in the world; to nonprejudice I attach the greatest value.
What seems different in yourself; that's the rare thing you possess. The one thing that gives each of us his worth, and that's just what we try to suppress. And we claim to love life.
The itch is a mean, unconfessable, ridiculous malady; one can pity someone who is suffering ; someone who wants to scratch himself makes one laugh.
Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.
What I dislike least in my former self are the moments of prayer.
Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.
Do not scorn little victories.