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
Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
Though a revolution may call itself "national," it always marks the victory of a single party.
What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.
Never have I been able to settle in life. Always seated askew, as if on the arm of a chair; ready to get up, to leave.
To be sure, theory is useful. But without warmth of heart and without love it bruises the very ones it claims to save.
Atheism. There is not a single exalting and emancipating influence that does not in turn become inhibitory.
He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.
Solitude is bearable only with God.
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.
The difficulty comes from this, that Christianity (Christian orthodoxy) is exclusive and that belief in its truth excludes belief in any other truth. It does not absorb; it repulses.
Chastity more rarely follows fear, or a resolution, or a vow, than it is the mere effect of lack of appetite and, sometimes even, of distaste.
Whither should we aim if not towards God?