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
The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.
I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
I intend to bring you strength, joy, courage, perspicacity, defiance.
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at the approach of old age my real youth will begin. My soul was born covered with wrinkles. Wrinkles my ancestors and parents most assiduously put there and that I had the greatest trouble removing.
The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.
The belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.
I have no use for knowledge that has not been preceded by a sensation
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
Long only for what you have.
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.