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
What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.
I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.
The wise man is astonished by anything.