The part in each of us that we feel is different from other people is just the part that is rare, the part that makes our special value - and that is… - André Gide

Everything that needs to be said has already been said. But, since no-one was listening, everything must be said again.

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.

We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.