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
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.
Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.
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
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 funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.