But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDESadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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The 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.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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