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Andre Gide Quote - What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.

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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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Answer Console Insult People
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Civilization One Liner Prejudice
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Art Artist Collaboration God
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
ANDRE GIDE

Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Contradict Fools One Liner Themselves
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Deep Motivational Respect Rose Thorn Want
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Adventure Believe Finding People Success
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Beget Coward Fear One Liner Worse
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Enjoyment Flower Inspirational Summer

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