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

Andre Gide

Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Contradict Fools One Liner Themselves
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
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
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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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Existence Faith Wisdom Yourself
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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One Liner Sin Soul
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
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
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
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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Freedom Inspirational Oneself
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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Art Human Labor Masterpiece Overcome Resistance
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

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

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