What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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