Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
ANDRE GIDESeize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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