The color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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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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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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