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• Mozart's joy is made of serenity, and a phrase of his music is like a calm thought; his simplicity is merely purity. It is a crystalline thing in which all the emotions play a role, but as if already celestially transposed. Moderation consists in feeling emotions as the angels do.

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  Angel, Play, Joy

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• There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.

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  Simple, Feelings, Complicated

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.284, Routledge

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• I do not love men: I love what devours them.

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  Men, Mankind

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• Please do not understand me too quickly.

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  Understand Me, Please

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• They establish distinctions and reserves which I cannot apply to myself, for I exist only as a whole; my only claim is to be natural, and the pleasure I feel in an action, I take as a sign that I ought to do it.

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  Action, Pleasure, Natural

  ANDRE GIDE (1958). “THE IMMORALIST”

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• It would be wisest not to worry too much about the sterile periods. They ventilate the subject and instill into it the reality of daily life.

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  Reality, Worry, Would Be

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• Every perfect action is accompanied by pleasure. By that you can tell what you ought to do.

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  Perfect, Action, Pleasure

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• The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.

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  Mind, Adoration, Blasphemy

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• It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.

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  Love, Pain, Happy Valentines Day

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• When you have nothing to say, or to hide, there is no need to be prudent.

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  Needs, Prudent, Prudence

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• It seems to me that had I not known Dostoevsky or Nietzsche or Freud or X or Z, I should have thought just as I did, and that I found in them rather an authorization than an awakening. Above all, they taught me to cease doubting, to cease fearing my thoughts, and to let those thoughts lead me to those lands that were not uninhabitable because after all I found them already there .

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  Should Have, Land, Doubt

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.276, Routledge

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• The very act of sacrifice magnifies the one who sacrifices himself to the point where his sacrifice is much more costly to humanity than would have been the loss of those for whom he is sacrificing himself. But in his abnegation lies the secret of his grandeur.

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  Lying, Loss, Sacrifice

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• Through fear of resembling one another, through horror of having to submit, through uncertainty as well, through skepticism and complexity, there is a multitude of individual little beliefs for the triumph of strange little individuals.

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  Littles, Triumph, Belief

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.34, Routledge

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• To understand is nothing, but to be understood-that is the problem and the source of anguish. The soul throbs and would have the other know-but can not and feels isolated. Then come gestures, words, awkward explanations and material symbols for imponderable outbursts of feeling-and the soul despairs.

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  Philosophical, Soul, Awkward

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• The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.

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  Perseverance, Men, Hands

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.289, Routledge

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• The individual never asserts himself more than when he forgets himself.

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  Inspirational, Forget, Forget Him

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.279, Routledge

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• The world will be saved by one or two people.

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  Future, Two, People

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

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  God, Men, Interesting

  Journals 1889-1949: Literature and Ethics, 1901.

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• It is now, and in this world, that we must live.

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  World, This World

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• The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

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  Strength, Art, Doe

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• An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

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  Understanding, Experience, Looks

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• In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

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  People, Bored, Awkward

  Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.60, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome.

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  Art, Overcoming, Doe

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• What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

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  Writing, Literature, Stories

  Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.46, Lulu Press, Inc

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• A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

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  Inspiration, Objectivity, Goal

  "The Journals of André Gide: 1914-1927". 1951.

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