Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEPoverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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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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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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