It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDEEvery instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Dare to be yourself.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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