Quote by: Andre Gide

I have always thought that great artists were those who dared to confer the right of beauty on things so natural that people say on seeing them, "Why did I never realize before that that was beautiful too?


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Author Bio


  • NameAndre Gide
  • DescriptionFrench novelist and essayist
  • AliasesAndré Paul Guillaume Gide
  • BornNovember 22, 1869
  • DiedFebruary 19, 1951
  • CountryFrance
  • ProfessionJournalist; Film Producer; Essayist; Playwright; Novelist; Diarist; Travel Writer; Translator; Autobiographer; Writer
  • WorksThe Immoralist; Strait Is The Gate; La Symphonie Pastorale; The Counterfeiters
  • AwardsNobel Prize In Literature