Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRE GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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