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.
ANDRE GIDEThere are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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