Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDEIn other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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