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Dare to be yourself.

Andre Gide

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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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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Dare to be yourself.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Dare to be yourself.

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