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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

Andre Gide

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Love Positive Reason Wisdom
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
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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Life Live Obligation Truth
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Existence Faith Wisdom Yourself
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
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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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Except Objective Path Straight Travel
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave

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