Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDEI do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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The color of truth is gray.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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