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
It is now, and in this world, that we must live.
When intelligent people pride themselves on not understanding, it is quite natural they should succeed better than fools.
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
In order to judge properly, one must get away somewhat from what one is judging, after having loved it. This is true of countries, of persons, and of oneself.
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.
Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.
Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.
Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.