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.
ANDRE GIDEThe 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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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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.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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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.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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