Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves. - Andre Gide - Quotesmemo.com

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A reader who quarrels with postulates, who dislikes Hamlet because he does not believe that there are ghosts or that people speak in pentameters, clearly has no business in literature. He cannot distinguish fiction from fact, and belongs in the same category as the people who send checks to radio stations for the relief of suffering heroines in soap operas.

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Andre Gide

Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves.

Occasions, Opinion, Opinions, People, Persisting

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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.

Art, Deepest, Doe, Strength, Supreme

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.

Finicky, Hands, Men, Perseverance, Sort, Stupidity

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

Happiness, Loyalty, Past, Wave, Withdrawal

The color of truth is gray.

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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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We're all born feeling perfect until somebody tells us we're not. So there's nothing I can teach my daughter. She already has all of it. The only thing I can do is protect what she already feels.

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