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
Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.
One is always wrong to open a conversation with the devil, for, however he goes about it, he always insists upon having the last word.
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.
Too chaste an adolescence makes for a dissolute old age. It is doubtless easier to give up something one has known than something one imagines.
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.
Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling place always finds an inhabitant.
Whither should we aim if not towards God?
Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
God lies ahead. I convince myself and constantly repeat to myself that: He depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
An opinion, though it is original, does not necessarily differ from the accepted opinion; the important thing is that it does not try to conform to it.
The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
The true return to nature is the definitive return to the elements-death.
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.