It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
Andre GideThe pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
Andre GideMan! The most complex of creatures, and for this reason the most dependant of creatures. On everything that has formed you, you may depend. Do not balk at this apparent slavery....a debtor to many, you pay for your advantages by the same number of dependencies. Understand that independence is a form of poverty; that many things claim you, that many also claim kinship with you.
Andre Gide