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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.

Andre Gide

But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Deep Man Reality Thinking
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
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Love Positive Reason Wisdom
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
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
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Civilization One Liner Prejudice
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
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Life Live Obligation Truth
The color of truth is gray.
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Color Gray One Liner Truth
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Acceptance Change Evil Motivational Struggle Work
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove

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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