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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

Andre Gide

Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Joy Moments Preparation Unique
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
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
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
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant
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
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Expectation Goodness Share Vice Virtue
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Attempt Encouragement Impossible Motivational
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
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf
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
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Enjoyment Flower Inspirational Summer
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
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
Please do not understand me too quickly.
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One Liner Please Poet Quick Understand
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
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
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
Dare to be yourself.
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Be Yourself Dare One Liner
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
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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One Liner Sin Soul
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
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
There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Close Door Inspirational Law Life Open

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