Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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