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 bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them.
Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.
To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.
"Let the dead bury the dead." There is not a single word of Christ to which the Christian religion has paid less attention.
Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.
If life were organized, there would be no need for art.
Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.
When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.
It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.
Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
Let every emotion be capable becoming an intoxication to you. If what you eat fails to make you drunk, it is because you are not hungry enough.