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Andre Gide Quote - Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.

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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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