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 great artist is one whom constraint exalts, for whom the obstacle is a springboard.
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
Man's first and greatest victory must be won against the gods.
Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
The greatest intelligence is precisely the one that suffers most from its own limitations
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty.
The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered.
You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
The individual man tries to escape the race. And as soon as he ceases to represent the race, he represents man.
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.