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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.

Andre Gide

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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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Cease Deception Life Sincere Wisdom
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Capacity Freedom Motivational Task Work Hard
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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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Answer Console Insult People
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Deep Motivational Respect Rose Thorn Want
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Joy Moments Preparation Unique

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