Quotes by Andre Gide

About Andre Gide:

André Paul Guillaume Gide was 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.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

Andre Gide

Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

The color of truth is gray.

Andre Gide

'Therefore' is a word the poet must not know.

Andre Gide

It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace.

Andre Gide

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not.

Andre Gide

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

Andre Gide

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Andre Gide

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself-and thus make yo...

Andre Gide

In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime.

Andre Gide

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Andre Gide

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Andre Gide

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Andre Gide

Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

Andre Gide

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Andre Gide

Not everyone can be an orphan.

Andre Gide

Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Andre Gide

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Andre Gide

It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

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To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations.

Andre Gide

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