Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDEWe should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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