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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

Andre Gide

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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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
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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Art Human Labor Masterpiece Overcome Resistance
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Enjoyment Flower Inspirational Summer
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Except Objective Path Straight Travel
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Deep Man Reality Thinking
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
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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Life Live Obligation Truth
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Close Door Inspirational Law Life Open

Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.

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