Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDEWhat 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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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