The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDEWhat 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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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