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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

Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Art Artist Collaboration God
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
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
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
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
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Close Door Inspirational Law Life Open
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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Freedom Inspirational Oneself
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
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
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
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Courage Discover Inspirational Lose Man Ocean Risk Shore Sight
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Cherish Goodness Humanity Live Men
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love

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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