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
'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
Great authors are admirable in this respect: in every generation they make for disagreement. Through them we become aware of our differences.
In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.
We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us
Please do not understand me too quickly.
The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.