Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEArt begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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