But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDEIn other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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