Quotes and sayings from Andre Gide

André Gide was a French writer, humanist, and moralist who was born on November 22, 1869, in Paris, France. He was the only child of Paul Gide and Juliette Rondeaux. Gide’s career spanned a wide variety of styles and topics, ranging from his beginnings in the Symbolist movement to criticizing imperialism between the two World Wars. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1947. Some of his notable works include “The Counterfeiters,” “The Immoralist,” “The Pastoral Symphony,” and “Strait Is the Gate”