I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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