In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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