“I must learn to keep silent. I must learn to take myself seriously. To have more mobile eyes and a less mobile face. To keep a straight face when I make a joke. Not to applaud every joke made by others. Not to show the same colorless geniality toward everyone. To disconcert at the right moment by keeping a poker face.”
More from André Gide
“Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt…”
“We prefer to go deformed and distorted all our lives rather than not resemble the portrait…”
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”