Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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