A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDEDare to be yourself.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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