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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Deep Motivational Respect Rose Thorn Want
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
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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Art Human Labor Masterpiece Overcome Resistance
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
Please do not understand me too quickly.
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One Liner Please Poet Quick Understand
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Cease Deception Life Sincere Wisdom
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Capacity Freedom Motivational Task Work Hard
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
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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Freedom Inspirational Oneself
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Concerntrate Essential Instant Irreplaceable Life Live
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
The color of truth is gray.
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Color Gray One Liner Truth
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Joy Moments Preparation Unique
There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Close Door Inspirational Law Life Open
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Except Objective Path Straight Travel
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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One Liner Sin Soul
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Beget Coward Fear One Liner Worse
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Existence Faith Wisdom Yourself
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

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