In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDEEverything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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