So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDEBut can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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