The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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