Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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