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.
ANDRE GIDEOnly those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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