Until the 1920's, this man was known chiefly in avant-garde and esoteric literary circles. The 1947 Nobel Prize of Literature went to French writer André Paul Guillaume Gide with this statement, "for his comprehensive and artistically significant writings, in which human problems and conditions have been presented with a fearless love of truth and keen psychological insight."

It is said his works gravitate around his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty and self-exploratory.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

I think we determine its an adventure when we're already on the roller coaster, or when the ride has come to its stop.