Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDENothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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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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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Dare to be yourself.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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