Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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 is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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