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.
ANDRE GIDESo long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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