But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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