We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDEFish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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 true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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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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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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