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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The color of truth is gray.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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