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Andre Gide Quote - Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.

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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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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
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
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Beget Coward Fear One Liner Worse
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Achievement Depend God
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
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
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
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Deep Motivational Respect Rose Thorn Want
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Compliment Expression Man Silly
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 most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
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
Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Contradict Fools One Liner Themselves
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Civilization One Liner Prejudice
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Close Door Inspirational Law Life Open
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad

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