‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDEThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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