But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEFish 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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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