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

Andre Gide

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Cease Deception Life Sincere Wisdom
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
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
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Except Objective Path Straight Travel
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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Answer Console Insult People
Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Art Human Labor Masterpiece Overcome Resistance
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
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Love Positive Reason Wisdom
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man

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