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
What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
Only fools don't contradict themselves
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say - because they were too obvious.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
The color of truth is gray.
The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.