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Andre Gide Quote - The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.

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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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Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
Dare to be yourself.
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Be Yourself Dare One Liner
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Art Artist Collaboration God
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Courage Discover Inspirational Lose Man Ocean Risk Shore Sight
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
The color of truth is gray.
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Color Gray One Liner Truth
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Attempt Encouragement Impossible Motivational
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
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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Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
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
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Joy Moments Preparation Unique
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
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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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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One Liner Sin Soul
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Enjoyment Flower Inspirational Summer
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Happiness Memories Past Prevention
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Civilization One Liner Prejudice
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Achievement Depend God
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Love Positive Reason Wisdom

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