A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDENothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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