André Gide
André Paul Guillaume Gide was a French author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to criticising imperialism between the two World Wars.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Paris
- Educated at
- Lycée Henri-IVÉcole alsacienne
- Awards
- 🏆 Nobel Prize in Literature🏆 Goethe Medal for Art and Science🏆 Goethe Plaque of the City of Frankfurt🏆 Grand Prize for the Best Novels of the Half-Century
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
"The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity."
"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."
"Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves."
"Pay attention only to the form; emotion will come spontaneously to inhabit it. A perfect dwelling always finds an inhabitant. The artist’s business is to build the dwelling; as for the inhabitant, it …"
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Timeline
1869
Born
Birth1951
Died
Death
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