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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Andre Gide

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
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
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Cease Deception Life Sincere Wisdom
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Adventure Believe Finding People Success
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
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
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Achievement Depend God
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Deep Motivational Respect Rose Thorn Want
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Answer Console Insult People
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
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
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time

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