The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRE GIDEKnow 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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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