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
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being.