In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Know 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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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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