Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEThe capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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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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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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