A Controversial Quotation?

André Paul Guillaume Gide:

Gide was a French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in literature in 1947. He is known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, he exposes to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation between the two sides of his personality, split apart by a straight-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.

What happens with him...that once he wrote this quote:

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

So, now I want to know your opinion: Do you believe that? What you think about it?...just express yourself.... ;D