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 GideThe belief that becomes truth for me... is that which allows me the best use of my strength, the best means of putting my virtues into action.
Andre GideThe most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.
Andre GideOf some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in which the parents do not act in such a way that nothing would be more desirable for the child than to escape their influence.
Andre Gide