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
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
To win ones joy through struggle is better than to yield to melancholy.
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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.
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time
Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
How do you know when the fruit is ripe? - Simple: When it leaves the branch
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