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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Andre Gide

Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome
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
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
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Answer Console Insult People
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
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Except Objective Path Straight Travel
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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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad
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
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Compliment Expression Man Silly
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Enjoyment Flower Inspirational Summer
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Courage Discover Inspirational Lose Man Ocean Risk Shore Sight
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Beget Coward Fear One Liner Worse
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society

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