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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Andre Gide

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Contradict Fools One Liner Themselves
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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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Enjoyment Flower Inspirational Summer
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant
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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Answer Console Insult People
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Deep Man Reality Thinking
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
ANDRE GIDE

Life Live Obligation Truth
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDE

Capacity Freedom Motivational Task Work Hard
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
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Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDE

Doubt Finding Trust Truth

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