Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDESo long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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