I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
ANDRE GIDEI can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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