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“It very often suffices to add together a quantity of little facts which, taken separately, are very simple and very natural, to arrive at a sum which is monstrous.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“I think he must have made my mother very unhappy, and yet he loved her—that is, if he ever really loved anyone.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“At this solemn moment, he would like to have some rare, sublime experience—hear a message from the world beyond—send his thought flying into ethereal regions, inaccessible to mortal senses. But no! his thought remains obstinately grovelling on the earth;”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“C’était une âme et un corps où n’entrait jamais l’aiguillon.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“It was that ambiguous hour when night is drawing to an end, and the devil casts up his accounts.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“The difficulty in life is to take the same thing seriously for long at a time.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“It seems to me sometimes that I do not really exist, but that I merely imagine I exist.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“In the domain of feeling, what is real is indistinguishable from what is imaginary.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“And if it is sufficient to imagine one loves, in order to love, so it is sufficient to say to oneself that when one loves one imagines one loves, in order to love a little less and even in order to detach oneself a little from one’s love, or at any rate to detach some of the crystals from one’s love.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“Just as photography in the past freed painting from its concern for a certain sort of accuracy, so the phonograph will eventually no doubt rid the novel of the kind of dialogue which is drawn from the life and which realists take so much pride in.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“The things that soonest appear out of date are those that at first strike us as most modern.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“Oh, one must go to oneself for advice, or to companions of one’s own age. One’s elders are no use.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“These scenes, when one of the parties offers more of his heart than the other wants, are always painful.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“Whether they will or no, a link is created between two creatures who experience a common emotion.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“You see, the great weakness of the symbolist school is that it brought nothing but an æsthetic with it; all the other great schools brought with them, besides their new styles, a new ethic, new tables, a new way of looking at things, of understanding love, of behaving oneself in life. As for the symbolist, it’s perfectly simple; he didn’t behave himself at all in life; he didn’t attempt to understand it; he denied its existence; he turned his back on it.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“I have often noticed with married couples how intolerably irritating the slightest protuberance of character in the one may be to the other, because in the course of life in common it continually rubs up against the same place. And if the rub is reciprocal, married life is nothing but a hell.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“I have often experienced that, in moments as solemn as this, all human emotion is transformed into an almost mystic ecstasy, into a kind of enthusiasm, in which my whole being is magnified, or rather liberated from all selfishness, as though dispossessed of itself and depersonalized.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“When one gets up there, out of sight of all culture, of all vegetation, of everything that reminds one of the avarice and stupidity of men, one feels inclined to shout, to sing, to laugh, to cry, to fly, to dive head foremost into the sky, or to fall on one’s knees.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“When one talks it’s in order to be understood.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“I used to imagine love as something volcanic”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“One wants to deceive people, and one is so much occupied with seeming, that one ends by not knowing what one really is.…”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“while the scholar seeks, the artist finds;”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“marriage nothing but a lugubrious barter with slavery as its upshot.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“Il faut se rendre à l’évidence; Car, dans ce bas monde, la danse Précède souvent la chanson.”
― André Gide, The Counterfeiters

“The Dodgers won it, 9-8, when Robinson hit a home run in the fourteenth inning. In the eleventh, he had knocked himself unconscious in a dive for a low line drive hit by Del Ennis. If he had not made the catch, the game would have been over. It was one of the matchless individual performances baseball has seen.”
― Jimmy Breslin, Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year

“They lost an awful lot of games by one run, which is the mark of a bad team. They also lost innumerable games by fourteen runs or so. This is the mark of a terrible team.”
― Jimmy Breslin, Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year

“I’ve been a Mets fan all my life.” Nearly everybody was saying it by mid-June. And nearly everybody had a good reason for saying it. You see, the Mets are losers, just like nearly everybody else in life.”
― Jimmy Breslin, Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year

“It is the team for every guy who has to get out of bed in the morning and go to work for short money on a job he does not like. And it is the team for every woman who looks up ten years later and sees her husband eating dinner in a T-shirt and wonders how the hell she ever let this guy talk her into getting married. The Yankees? Who does well enough to root for them, Laurence Rockefeller?”
― Jimmy Breslin, Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year

“For consistency, Philadelphia baseball, among other things in the town, always has been the worst.”
― Jimmy Breslin, Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year

“LONG ISLAND, WHICH IS considered part of New York and the new home of the Mets, is the perfect place for them. Nothing particularly good has happened on Long Island for over fifty years, so nobody is going to get unduly concerned if the Mets take more than a little while to pull themselves together.”
― Jimmy Breslin, Can't Anybody Here Play This Game?: The Improbable Saga of the New York Mets' First Year