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 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 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.
It is only through restraint that man can manage not to suppress himself.
The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.
Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.
Without mysticism man can achieve nothing great.
Man! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.
Those who have never been ill are incapable of real sympathy for a great many misfortunes
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned
The less intelligent the white man is, the more stupid he thinks the black.