What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
ANDRE GIDENothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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