Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found 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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