It is the special quality of love not to be able to remain stationary, to be obliged to increase under pain of diminishing.
Andre GideMan: The most complex of beings, and thus the most dependent of beings. On all that made you up, you depend.
Andre GideThrow away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, donโt do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, donโt say itโor written something as well as you, donโt write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.
Andre GideOh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
Andre Gide