Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
ANDRE GIDEPrejudices are the props of civilization.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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