The most decisive actions of our life -- I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future -- are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Quote by Andre Gide

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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back...

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back...

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that...

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that...

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary...

The most important things to say are those which often I did not think necessary...

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what...

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what...

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at...

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at...

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling.

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what...

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible...

Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible...

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome

Therefore is a word the poet must not know.

Therefore is a word the poet must not know.

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the...

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the...

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves

I find just as much profit in cultivating my hates as my loves

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for...

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for...

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your truth....

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your truth....

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another...

What another would have done as well as you, do not do it. What another...

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit...

To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit...