Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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