Quote by: Andre Gide

We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait of ourselves which we ourselves have first drawn. It’s absurd. We run the risk of warping what’s best in us


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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