Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRE GIDEIn other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Dare to be yourself.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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