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Andre Gide Quote - A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.

A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.

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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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