But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDESeize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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