Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEThere is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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