Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found 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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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