The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDEBe faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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Dare to be yourself.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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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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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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