Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDEEvery instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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