Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
ANDRE GIDESadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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