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
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
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.
Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.
An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.
It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.