What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there in advance.
Andre GideThen you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?
Andre GideYou have to let other people be right' was his answer to their insults. 'It consoles them for not being anything else.
Andre GideThrow 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, donโt do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, donโt say itโor written something as well as you, donโt 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.
Andre Gide