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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.

Andre Gide

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Deep Man Reality Thinking
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Concerntrate Essential Instant Irreplaceable Life Live
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
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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Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
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
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
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
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
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
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
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Adventure Believe Finding People Success

Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.

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