A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDEThere is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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 is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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