There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRE GIDEPlease do not understand me too quickly.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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