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

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  Moving, Stupidity, Doubt

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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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• The wise man is astonished by anything.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

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  Maturity, Branches, Fruit

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.279, Routledge

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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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• 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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• Understanding is the beginning of approving.

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  Understanding, Approving

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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 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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• 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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• Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

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  Intelligent, Men, People

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.275, Routledge

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• Seize from every moment its unique novelty, and do not prepare your joys.

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  Unique, Joy, Preparation

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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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• He who makes great demands upon himself is naturally inclined to make great demands on others.

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  Demand

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• To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.

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  Motivational, Travel, Reading

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.105, Routledge

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• Man is extraordinarily clever in preventing himself from being happy; it would seem that the less able he is to endure misfortune the more apt he is to attach himself to it.

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  Clever, Men, Able

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• Believe in your strength and your vision. Learn to repeat to yourself, 'It all depends on me'.

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  Believe, Responsibility, Vision

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

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  Life, Literature, Action

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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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