Andre Gide Quotes

12 quotes from 10 authors

If you’re curious about the paradoxes that haunted André Gide, these twelve excerpts pull apart his intellect. From the claim that everything worth saying has been spoken, the snippets capture his blend of skepticism and poetic daring. For a view, Existential Voices and French Literary Icons pages hold deeper selections.

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There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs,…

Luke Harding

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“We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness (Andre Gide, 28 July 1914)”

Max Hastings

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

â André Gide

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“André Gide, so aptly put it, “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a…

Jen Sincero

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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not -Andre Gide

Andre Gide

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“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not. —André Gide; French…

Jen Sincero

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I wanted to meet other artists. I suppose I simply felt that I was taking pot shots at clay pipes. Pop! Down…

Paul Bowles

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“As French author and fearless truth-seeker, André Gide, so aptly put it, “One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose…

Jen Sincero

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“ As pointed out by French author and Nobelist in literature André Gide: "Everything that needs to be said has already been said.…

Guy R. McPherson

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Art is theft”) and Igor Stravinsky (“Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal”), I’ve always stolen from the people I admire – not…

Austin Kleon

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“To acquire the full consciousness of self is to know oneself so different from others that no longer feels allied with men…

Remy de Gourmont

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“They also bring to mind what sometimes seems to be a rapt predilection of small but influential cults of intellectuals or esthetes…

Hervey M. Cleckley

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