Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
ANDRE GIDESeize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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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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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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