It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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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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Dare to be yourself.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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