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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.

Andre Gide

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Happiness Memories Past Prevention
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
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
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
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Existence Faith Wisdom Yourself
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
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
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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One Liner Sin Soul
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
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
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
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Compliment Expression Man Silly
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

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