Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
ANDRE GIDEEvery instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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