But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEArt begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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