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French author and Nobel laureate (1869–1951)

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André Paul Guillaume Gide (22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1947.

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Alternative Names: André Paul Guillaume Gide • Andre Gide • Andre Paul Guillaume Gide

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Mieux vaut être haï pour ce que l'on est, qu'aimé pour ce que l'on n'est pas.

Aren’t you strong enough to walk alone? We must each of us find God by ourselves.

Croyez ceux qui cherchent la vérité, doutez de ceux qui la trouvent; doutez de tout, mais ne doutez pas de vous-même.

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

به خویشتن بقبولان که تنها خداست که موقتی نیست!

بين أن يحب المرء وبين أن يظن أنه يحب، وحده الإله بمقدوره أن يميز بين الحالتين .

On ne peut être à la fois sincère et le paraître.

El color de la verdad es gris.

Messieurs, il faut aimer son aigle, l'aimer pour qu'il devienne beau ; car c'est parce qu'il sera beau que vous devez aimer votre aigle...

...Gradation; gradation; and then a sudden leap...

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

Je pars simplement pour partir, la surprise même est mon but - l'imprevu - Comprennez-vous?

Life was nothing other than what came and went with each passing moment.

How would one tell a story about happiness? One can only tell of the origins of happiness and its destruction.

I do not want to recollect. I should be afraid of preventing the future and of allowing the past to encroach on me. It is out of the utter forgetfulness of yesterday that I create every new hour's freshness. It is never enough for me to have been happy. I do not believe in dead things and cannot distinguish between being no more and never having been.