‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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