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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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