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
Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.
You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
The individual person is more interesting than people in general; he and not they is the one whom God created in His image.
Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.
Nothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.
Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.
Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.
The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities.... I listen to them and they go away delighted.
In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring...
The world will be saved by one or two people.
The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time
Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
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