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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
Andre Gide
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Andre Gide
Age: 82 †
Born: 1869
Born: November 22
Died: 1951
Died: December 19
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You have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
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I prefer granting with a good grace what I know I shan't be able to prevent.
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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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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Don't think that your truth could be found by someone else.
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One completely overcomes only what one assimilates.
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Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.
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It is better to fail at your own life than to succeed at someone else's.
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Oh, would that my mind could let fall its dead ideas, as the tree does its withered leaves! And without too many regrets, if possible! Those from which the sap has withdrawn. But, good Lord, what beautiful colors!
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Actions whose motives he cannot understand that is, actions not prompted by the hope of profit.
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