Andre Gide Quotes About Feelings

Quotes about: Feelings

• 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.

  Andre Gide

  Philosophical, Soul, Awkward

• Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.

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  Feelings, Emotion, Attributes

• Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

  Andre Gide

  Understanding, Feelings, Capable

• 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

• 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.

  Andre Gide

  Angel, Play, Joy

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