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• Often the best in us springs from the worst in us.

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  Spring, Worst

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.315, Routledge

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• Other people's appetites easily appear excessive when one doesn't share them.

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  People, Share, Appetite

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.228, Vintage

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• In order to be utterly happy the only thing necessary is to refrain from comparing this moment with other moments in the past, which I often did not fully enjoy because I was comparing them with other moments of the future.

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  Happiness, Past, Order

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• But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.

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  New Year, Holiday, Years

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• The nationalist has a broad hatred and a narrow love.

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  Hatred, Broads, Nations

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• Each thought becomes an anxiety in my brain. I am becoming the ugliest of all things: a busy man.

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  Men, Anxiety, Brain

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• I owe much to my friends; but, all things considered, it strikes me that I owe even more to my enemies. The real person springs life under a sting even better than under a caress.

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  Life, Spring, Real

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• If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

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  Inspirational, Would Be, Spirit

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.165, Vintage

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• Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

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  Moving, Stupidity, Doubt

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• The wise man is astonished by anything.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

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  Reason

  "The Fruits of the Earth". Book by André Gide, book I, 1897.

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• 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 owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

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  Happiness, Loyalty, Past

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• Understanding is the beginning of approving.

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  Understanding, Approving

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• The thing I am most aware of is my limits. And this is natural; for I never, or almost never, occupy the middle of my cage; my whole being surges toward the bars.

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  Art, Philosophy, History

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• What thwarts us and demands of us the greatest effort is also what can teach us most.

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  Effort, Demand, Teach

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• It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.

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  Succeed, Failing, Favourite

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• Laws and rules of conduct are for the state of childhood; education is an emancipation.

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  Education, Law, Childhood

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• I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves.

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  Hate, Hatred, Profit

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• We call "happiness" a certain set of circumstances that makes joy possible. But we call joy that state of mind and emotions that needs nothing to feel happy.

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  Joy, Mind, Needs

  "Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality". Book by André Gide, edited by Justin O'Brien, 1964.

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• Yet I'm sure there's something more to be read in a man. People dare not -- they dare not turn the page. The laws of mimicry -- I call them the laws of fear. People are afraid to find themselves alone, and don't find themselves at all. I hate this moral agoraphobia -- it's the worst kind of cowardice. You can't create something without being alone. But who's trying to create here? What seems different in yourself: that's the one rare thing you possess, the one thing which gives each of us his worth; and that's just what we try to suppress. We imitate. And we claim to love life.

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  Love, Hate, Men

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• The most decisive actions of life are most often unconsidered actions.

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  Life, Literature, Action

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• What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another would have said as well as you, do not say it; what another would have written as well, do not write it. Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself - and thus make yourself indispensable.

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  Change, Being Yourself, Writing

  "Les Nourritures Terrestres". Book by André Gide, 1897.

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• The most beaten paths are certainly the surest, but do not hope to start much game on them.

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  Games, Path, Beaten

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• 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 is scarcely found except in the greatest, or in beggars.

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  Effort, Mind, Genius

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.280, Routledge

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• Woe to these people who have no appetite for the very dish that their age serves up.

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  People, Age, Woe

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.101, Routledge

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