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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Andre Gide

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
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Acceptance Change Evil Motivational Struggle Work
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Love Positive Reason Wisdom
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
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
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
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
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
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Happiness Memories Past Prevention
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
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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Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
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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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad

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