It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDEProfound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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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