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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

Andre Gide

Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Art Artist Collaboration God
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Expectation Goodness Share Vice Virtue
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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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Love Positive Reason Wisdom
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Capacity Freedom Motivational Task Work Hard
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Concerntrate Essential Instant Irreplaceable Life Live
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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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
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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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Cease Deception Life Sincere Wisdom
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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Art Human Labor Masterpiece Overcome Resistance

Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.

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