Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEOnly fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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