Gide Quotes

Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine. (Fernando Sabino)
To think for oneself is not only, as Gide said, counterrevolutionary but also apostasy and, at certain times, treason. View quote
Eric Hoffer
There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide. View quote
Luke Harding
Civilization is an active deposit which is formed by the combustion of the present with the past. Neither in countries without a Present nor in those without a Past is it to be encountered. Proust in Venice, Matisse's birdcages overlooking the flower market at Nice, Gide on the seventeenth-century quais of Toulon, Lorca in Granada, Picasso by Saint-Germain-des-PrTs there lies civilization and for me it can exist only under those liberal regimes in which the Present is alive and therefore capable of assimilating the Past. View quote
Cyril Connolly