There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
ANDRE GIDEGod depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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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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