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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.

Andre Gide

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
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Art Artist Collaboration God
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
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Acceptance Change Evil Motivational Struggle Work
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Existence Faith Wisdom Yourself
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
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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Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
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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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Joy Moments Preparation Unique
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
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
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
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
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
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

Only fools don’t contradict themselves.

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