The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRE GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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I do not love men: I love what devours 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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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