Gide Quotes

“Que toute émotion sache te devenir une ivresse. Si ce que tu manges ne te grise pas, c'est que tu n'avais pas assez faim.”
― André Gide, Les Nourritures terrestres: suivi de Les nouvelles nourritures

“Gide was the tutelary god of my adolescence, and I immersed myself in his work. He wasn’t a very good role model, since he made it clear that he was a pedophile, not a homosexual, and genuinely immoral.”
― Edmund White, The Unpunished Vice: A Life of Reading

“The laws of mimicry - I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all.”
― André Gide