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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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  Freedom, Liberty, Know How

  Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc

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• To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

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  Truth, Saddened, Refuse

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• Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.

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  Attitude, Book, Writing

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• 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, Sadness, Discovery

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• A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

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  Men, Thinking

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• Only fools don't contradict themselves

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  Fool

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• Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

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  Order, Life Is, Irreplaceable

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• Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

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  Memories, Adversity, Problem

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• Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.

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  Life, Success, Butterfly

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• Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

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  Maturity, Thinking, Judgement

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• I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

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  Vices, Virtue, Good Enough

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• We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

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  Summer, Flower, Lasts

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• Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

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  Ideas, Doe, Dare

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• When I cease to be indignant I will have begun my old age.

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  Age, Indignant, Old Age

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• Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

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  Possession, Values

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• The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

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  Truth, Lying, Artist

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• Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.

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  Christian, Soul, Atheism

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• The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

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  Bores You, Annoyed, Literature

  The journals, 1889-1949. Vol 2. (p. 20), 1956.

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• Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

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  Responsibility, Power, Men

  "Voodoo Science". Book by Robert L.Park, p. 31,

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• The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

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  Wise, Men, Wonder

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• It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.

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  Truth Is, Harder

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• Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

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  Understanding, Feelings, Capable

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• It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

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  Stars, Wish, Literature

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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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  Men, Madness, Knows

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• 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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  Truth Is, Knows, Obliged

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