I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
ANDRE GIDE
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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