You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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