The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
ANDRE GIDEI do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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