Andre Gide Quotes
Life never presents us with anything which may not be looked upon as a fresh starting point, no less than as a termination.
Citations
Gide, André. The Counterfeiters. Translated by Dorothy Bussy, Alfred A. Knopf, 1927, p. 352.
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André Paul Guillaume Gide 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. The author of more than fifty books, at the time of his death his obituary in The New York Times described him as "France's greatest contemporary man of letters" and "judged the greatest French writer of this century by the literary cognoscenti."