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.
ANDRE GIDEThere are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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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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