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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

Andre Gide

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
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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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
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
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Love Positive Reason Wisdom
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Attempt Encouragement Impossible Motivational
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Freedom Inspirational Oneself
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Capacity Freedom Motivational Task Work Hard
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
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
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
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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Answer Console Insult People
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
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
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
The color of truth is gray.
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Color Gray One Liner Truth

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