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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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The color of truth is gray.
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