The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRE GIDEFish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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