Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Dare to be yourself.
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