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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.

Andre Gide

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
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
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Beget Coward Fear One Liner Worse
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Contradict Fools One Liner Themselves
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
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
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
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Existence Faith Wisdom Yourself
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome
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
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

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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