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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

Andre Gide

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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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Concerntrate Essential Instant Irreplaceable Life Live
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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Life Live Obligation Truth
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
The color of truth is gray.
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Color Gray One Liner Truth
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Deep Man Reality Thinking
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
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
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Civilization One Liner Prejudice
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Compliment Expression Man Silly
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome
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
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Art Artist Collaboration God

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

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