What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
ANDRE GIDEIn other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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