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
If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
Are you then unable to recognize unless it has the same sound as yours?
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
The novelist does not long to see the lion eat grass. He realizes that one and the same God created the wolf and the lamb, then smiled, “seeing that his work was good.”
The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.
From the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
Not everyone can be an orphan.