A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDEToo chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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