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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.

Andre Gide

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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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Achievement Depend God
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Freedom Inspirational Oneself
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
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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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Acceptance Change Evil Motivational Struggle Work
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
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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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf

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