Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare … - Andre Gide

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Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?

Andre Gide

Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

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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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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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