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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Andre Gide

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
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
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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One Liner Sin Soul
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Joy Moments Preparation Unique
Please do not understand me too quickly.
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One Liner Please Poet Quick Understand
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
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
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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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
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
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Existence Faith Wisdom Yourself
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome
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
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

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