There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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