Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDEThere are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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