I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDEThere is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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