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
The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.