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Andre Gide Quote - What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.

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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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Enjoyment Flower Inspirational Summer
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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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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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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Art Artist Collaboration God
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
The color of truth is gray.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth

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