The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDEKnow 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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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The color of truth is gray.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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