Andre Gide Quote

"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not." - Andre Gide

Here again, I won't post a quote from someone who has values that I don't live by. The description of who Andre Gide was is a good summation of the quote above. He also lived by being who he truly is rather than being what others wanted him to be, or who he thought he "should" be. Live true to yourself - and while doing that,

"Squeeze the joy from every minute, as minutes won't return, yet memories do"

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André Gide
André Gide in 1893
Born
November 22, 1869(1869-11-22)Paris
Died
February 19, 1951 (aged 81)Paris
Occupation
Novelist, essayist
Notable award(s)
Nobel Prize in Literature1947
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Dostoevsky, Fielding, du Gard, Nietzsche, Rabindranath Tagore, Wilde
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Rivière, Brian O'Nolan, Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus
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André Paul Guillaume Gide (French IPA: [ɑ̃dʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid]) (November 22, 1869—February 19, 1951) was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. Gide's career ranged from its beginnings in the symbolist movement, to the advent of anticolonialism between the two World Wars.
Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation between the two sides of his personality, split apart by a strait-laced education and a narrow social moralism. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritan constraints, and gravitates around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, even to the point of owning one's sexual nature, without at the same time betraying one's values. His political activity is informed by the same ethos, as suggested by his repudiation of communism after his 1936 voyage to the USSR