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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Andre Gide

‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Except Objective Path Straight Travel
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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Answer Console Insult People
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Compliment Expression Man Silly
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Concerntrate Essential Instant Irreplaceable Life Live
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Joy Moments Preparation Unique
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Art Artist Collaboration God
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
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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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Cherish Goodness Humanity Live Men
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

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