But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEWe should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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