The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDEThere is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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