It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDEThe color of truth is gray.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Dare to be yourself.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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