Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
ANDRE GIDEEverything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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