Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
ANDRE GIDEOnly those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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