True eloquence forgoes eloquence. - Andre Gide - Quotesmemo.com

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When you choose to be angry you are affirming that you want greater anger in your life.

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Andre Gide

True eloquence forgoes eloquence.

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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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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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