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
Andre Gide quotes about
Know thyself! A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever observes himself arrests his own development. A caterpillar who wanted to know itself well would never become a butterfly.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
True eloquence forgoes eloquence.
If only we could lean over the soul we love and see as in a mirror the image we cast!
The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
The abominable effort to take one’s sins with one to paradise.
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Not everyone can be an orphan.