The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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