Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEComplete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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 capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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