Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness … - Andre Gide

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The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.

Andre Gide

Money cannot buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable. Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

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The most subtle art, the strongest and deepest art - supreme art - is the one that does not at first allow itself to be recognized.

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The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness.

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Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one.

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The color of truth is gray.

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In other people's company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.

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I must, before I die, find some way to say the essential thing that is in me, that I have never said yet -- a thing that is not love or hate or pity or scorn, but the very breath of life, fierce and coming from far away, bringing into human life the vastness and the fearful passionless force of non-human things.

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For ultimately, the only way to win wars, is to prevent them occurring in the first place.

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The more we know, the more pain we have. But because we are human beings, this must be. Otherwise we become objects rather than subjects.

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I don't think anybody thinks about their past much, unless they're in a mental institution.

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Things always seem fairer when we look back at them, and it is out of that inaccessible tower of the past that Longing leans and beckons.

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