Please do not understand me too quickly.
ANDRE GIDEThe most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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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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The color of truth is gray.
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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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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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