25 Powerful And Inspiring Andre Gide Quotes

โAndre Gideโ by โEugenio Hansen, OFSโ, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0
The French author Andrรฉ Paul Guillaume Gide was born in Paris, France, on 22nd November 1869. His career spanned from the symbolist movement to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. His obituary in The New York Times at the time of his death referred to him as โFranceโs greatest contemporary authorโ and โfamous literary criticsโ choice for the greatest French writer of the century.โ
Andrรฉ Gide is considered one of the greatest French writers of all time. His work ranged from novels to essays, and he was a literary critic and philosopher. We have collected these Andre Gide quotes that are powerful and have an inspiring message.
Andre Gide Quotes
โBelieve those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it.โ
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: SO BE IT (1960)
โThe most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary for me to say โ because they were too obvious.โ
ANDRE GIDE
โGenerally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.โ
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: REFLECTIONS ON LITERATURE AND MORALITY
โArt begins with resistance โ at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labour.โ
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: POรTIQUE
โFrom the satisfaction of desire there may arise, accompanying joy and as it were sheltering behind it, something not unlike despair.โ
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: THE COUNTERFEITERS

SOURCE: REFLECTIONS ON LITERATURE AND MORALITY
โOne must allow others to be right, it consoles them for not being anything else.โ
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: THE IMMORALIST
โHe who wants a rose must respect her thorn.โ
ANDRE GIDE
โNothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.โ
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: THE IMMORALIST
โO my dearest and most lovable thought, why should I try further to legitimize your birth?โย
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: REFLECTIONS ON LITERATURE AND MORALITY
โOne canโt correct what one does. Itโs the power of revising that makes writing such a colourless affair.โ
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: THE VATICAN CELLARS

SOURCE: THE IMMORALIST
โArt is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better.โย
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: AUTUMN LEAVES
โA straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.โ
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: THE JOURNALS OF ANDRร GIDE
โWe call happiness a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.โ
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: REFLECTIONS ON LITERATURE AND MORALITY
โManโs responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.โ
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: THE JOURNALS OF ANDRร GIDE
โSadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.โ
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: THE JOURNALS OF ANDRร GIDE

SOURCE: MARSHLANDS AND PROMETHEUS MISBOUND
โTo know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with oneโs freedom.โย
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: LโIMMORALISTE
โThere are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.โย
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: SI LE GRAIN NE MEURT
โWisdom comes not from reason but from love.โย
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: LES NOURRITURES TERRESTRES
โThe true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.โย
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: THE COUNTERFEITERS
โNothing is good for everyone, but only relatively to some people.โ
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: THE COUNTERFEITERS

โThe public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.โ
ANDRE GIDE
SOURCE: THE COUNTERFEITERS
Daniel Moutote contends that Gideโs work is distinctively modern because each volume he wrote posed a challenge to what had come before, and what might follow.
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