Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDESeize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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