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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

Andre Gide

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
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
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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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Acceptance Change Evil Motivational Struggle Work
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Beget Coward Fear One Liner Worse
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
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
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
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Civilization One Liner Prejudice
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Achievement Depend God
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Happiness Memories Past Prevention
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad

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