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.
Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.
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
Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.
Not everyone can be an orphan.
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
Only fools don't contradict themselves
Nothing excellent can be done without leisure.