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

Andre Gide

‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
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
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Joy Moments Preparation Unique
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Expectation Goodness Share Vice Virtue
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Contradict Fools One Liner Themselves
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
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
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps

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

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