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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Andre Gide

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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Life Live Obligation Truth
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.
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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
Please do not understand me too quickly.
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One Liner Please Poet Quick Understand
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Adventure Believe Finding People Success
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Deep Man Reality Thinking
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Capacity Freedom Motivational Task Work Hard
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
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Enjoyment Flower Inspirational Summer
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Except Objective Path Straight Travel
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
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.
ANDRE GIDE

Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer

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