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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Andre Gide

‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
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
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
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Cease Deception Life Sincere Wisdom
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf
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
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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One Liner Sin Soul
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
The color of truth is gray.
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Color Gray One Liner Truth
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
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Except Objective Path Straight Travel
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
ANDRE GIDE

Freedom Inspirational Oneself

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

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