Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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 prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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