Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDEEvery instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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