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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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  Inspirational, Life, Positive

  Andre Gide (2012). “The Counterfeiters: A Novel”, p.353, Vintage

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• There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

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  Life, Long, Doe

  "If It Die". Book by André Gide, ch. III, 1924.

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• The only real education comes from what goes counter to you.

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  Education, Real, Real Education

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• Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

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  Possession, Values

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• The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

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  Beautiful, Writing, Madness

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• Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.

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  Attitude, Book, Writing

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• Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

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  Order, Life Is, Irreplaceable

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• Whoever starts out toward the unknown must consent to venture alone.

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  Single, Being Single, Venture

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• The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

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  Wise, Men, Wonder

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• To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

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  Truth, Saddened, Refuse

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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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  Summer, Flower, Lasts

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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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• The wise man is astonished by anything.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Believe those who seek the truth, doubt those who find it; doubt all, but do not doubt yourself.

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  Truth, Believe, Profound

  "Ainsi soit-il; ou, Les Jeux sont faits". Book by André Gide, p. 174, 1952.

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• By the time a philospher answers a question weve usually forgotten what was asked.

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  Philosophy, Answers, Forgotten

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• A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

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  Men, Thinking

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• Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

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  Sadness, Self Pity, Misery

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• Only fools don't contradict themselves

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  Fool

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• Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself- and thus make yourself indispensable.

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  Success, Faithful, Being Faithful

  "The Fruits of the Earth". Book by André Gide, 1897.

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• We live counterfeit lives in order to resemble the idea we first had of ourselves.

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  Order, Ideas, Identity

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• A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly

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  Butterfly, Know Thyself, Caterpillars

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• Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

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  Understanding, Feelings, Capable

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• Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

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  Life, Soul, Sin

  "La Symphonie Pastorale". Book by André Gide, 1919.

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• Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

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  Memories, Adversity, Problem

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• Do not scorn little victories.

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  Victory, Littles, Scorn

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