Andre Gide Quotes
We are readying ourselves to enter a long tunnel full of blood and darkness.
Andre Gide, 1869-1951, French Writer, Statement at the beginning of WWI, July 28, 1914
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Everyone could see the First World War coming, but the government leaders and diplomats were not able to prevent it.
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."
