But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEThe truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Dare to be yourself.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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