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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.

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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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Expectation Goodness Share Vice Virtue
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Concerntrate Essential Instant Irreplaceable Life Live
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
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
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad
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
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Compliment Expression Man Silly
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
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
Dare to be yourself.
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Be Yourself Dare One Liner
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
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDE

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.

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