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.
ANDRE GIDENothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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