Quotes About Gide

J'avais déjà eu connaissance de l'extrait du Journal de Gide (vous savez sans doute qu'il est ici en ce moment) ; cela donne une bien triste idée de sa prétendue "intelligence" ! lettre du 30 janvier 1946 à un correspondant inconnu

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written.

I read Gide's 'The Immoralist' over and over as a teenager. I was obsessed with it. It's written with such simplicity and dread, and the desert, the shabby colonial world, is brought right into your consciousness without being over-explained.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

Though a prose writer (of over fifty novels and a journalist and memoirist of forty books of nonfiction), Colette (1873–1954) lives on in literary history as the poet of the flesh—male, female, androgynous, young, aging, old, animal, vegetable. Proust, who praised her "voluptuous and bitter" soul, wept over some of her pages, André Gide "devoured [her] at a gulp.

Part came from Lane, and part from D.H. Lawrence; Gide, though I didn't know it then, gave part. They taught me to express my deep abhorrence If I caught anyone preferring Art To Life and Love and being Pure-in-heart. I lived with crooks but seldom was molested; The Pure-in-heart can never be arrested.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!