Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
ANDRE GIDEPrejudices are the props of civilization.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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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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