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Mind Quotes by Andre Gide
- Great minds tend toward banality. It is the noblest effort of individualism. But it implies a sort of modesty, which is so rare that it…
- Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible!…
- The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
- What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there…
- Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave…
- No encounter occured that day, and I was glad of it; I took out of my pocket a little Homer I had not opened since…
- Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves!
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- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
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