It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDEIn other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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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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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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The color of truth is gray.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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