Andre Gide Quotes About Feelings
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There is no feeling so simple that it is not immediately complicated and distorted by introspection.
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Most often it happens that one attributes to others only the feelings of which one is capable oneself.
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Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.
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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.
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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.
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