The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy. - Andre Gide - Quotesmemo.com

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Now, to tell my story--if not as it ought to be told, at least as I can tell it,--I must go back sixteen years, to the days when Whitbury boasted of forty coaches per diem, instead of one railway, and set forth how in its southern suburb, there stood two pleasant house side by side, with their gardens sloping down to the Whit, and parted from each other only by the high brick fruit-wall, through which there used to be a door of communication; for the two occupiers were fast friends.

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Andre Gide

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

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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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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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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.

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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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