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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.

Andre Gide

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
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
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
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
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
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Civilization One Liner Prejudice
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
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDE

Answer Console Insult People
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Art Artist Collaboration God
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDE

Fear Monster Warrant
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf

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