Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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