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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.

Andre Gide

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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Answer Console Insult People
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Concerntrate Essential Instant Irreplaceable Life Live
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
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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Life Live Obligation Truth
Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Art Human Labor Masterpiece Overcome Resistance
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Deep Man Reality Thinking
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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One Liner Sin Soul
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Love Positive Reason Wisdom
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Attempt Encouragement Impossible Motivational
There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Close Door Inspirational Law Life Open

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