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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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had 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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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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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