Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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