Andre Gide

André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author whose writings spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Wikipedia

• Born: November 22, 1869, Paris, France

• Died: February 19, 1951, Paris, France

• Written: The Immoralist, The Counterfeiters, La Symphonie pastorale, Isabelle

Great Thoughts Of Andre Gide

"“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.”

“The color of truth is grey.”

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

“There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.”

“You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore”

“Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But

who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.”

“Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.”

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

“To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one's freedom”

“Long only for what you have.”

"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."