Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
ANDRE GIDEWelcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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The color of truth is gray.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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