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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Dare to be yourself.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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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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