Andre Gide Quotes
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
Topics
Appreciation
Impermanence
Summer
Present Moment
Carpe Diem
Last Summer
Flower
Enjoy Life
Appreciating Nature
Beauty Appreciation
Fleeting Time
Gratitude for the Present
Living Life to the Fullest
Living in the Present
Savoring the Moment
Seizing the Day
Simple Pleasures
Summer Joy
mindfulness in nature
cherishing each day
Citations
Gide, André. Strait Is the Gate. Translated by Dorothy Bussy, Alfred A. Knopf, 1924, p. 135.
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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."