We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDEThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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