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

Andre Gide

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
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Beget Coward Fear One Liner Worse
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Expectation Goodness Share Vice Virtue
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Art Artist Collaboration God
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Achievement Depend God
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
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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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Love Positive Reason Wisdom
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Concerntrate Essential Instant Irreplaceable Life Live
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
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Adventure Believe Finding People Success
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
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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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Cherish Goodness Humanity Live Men
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
ANDRE GIDE

Fatal Happiness Remember

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

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