A Quote by Andre Gide
The pettiness of a mind can be measured by the pettiness of its adoration or its blasphemy.
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I enjoy my pettiness with a dose of wit.
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Pettiness separates; breadth unites. Let us be broad and big.
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A noble heart cannot suspect in others the pettiness and malice that it has never felt.
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Today I offer a prayer of forgiveness:
forgive the pettiness of my ingratitude...
the absence of profound thankfulness.
No woman allows her lover to descend from his pedestal. Even a god is not forgiven the slightest pettiness.
Gradually the feeling wears off, and I feel swamped again by the inexplicable pettiness of being alive.
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