About Author : Andre Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide’s career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation between the two sides of his personality, split apart by a strait-laced education and a narrow social moralism.
Andre Gide Quotations and Sayings
The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say because they were too obvious.
Welcome anything that comes to you but do not long for anything else.
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.
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.
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
Everything has been said before but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
The most decisive actions of our life. I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future are more often than not unconsidered.
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Art is a collarboration between God and the artist and the less the artist does the better.
It is better to be hated for who you are than to be loved for what you are not.
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it.