Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDEFish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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