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
Andre Gide quotes about
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
Only fools don't contradict themselves
Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
Whither should we aim if not towards God?
How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being.
The great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought just as I did, and that I found in them rather an authorization than an awakening. Above all, they taught me to cease doubting, to cease fearing my thoughts, and to let those thoughts lead me to those lands that were not uninhabitable because after all I found them already there .
Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
Our deeds attach themselves to us like the flame to phosphorus. They constitute our brilliance, to be sure, but only in so far as they consume us.
Understand that the only possession of any value is life.