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Andre Gide Quote - I do not love men: I love what devours them.

I do not love men: I love what devours them.

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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Joy Moments Preparation Unique
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
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
The color of truth is gray.
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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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Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Courage Discover Inspirational Lose Man Ocean Risk Shore Sight
The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Continue Diminish Funny Growth Love
Please do not understand me too quickly.
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One Liner Please Poet Quick Understand
Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Contradict Fools One Liner Themselves
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
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
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
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Civilization One Liner Prejudice
Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Expectation Goodness Share Vice Virtue
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
Dare to be yourself.
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Be Yourself Dare One Liner
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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Compliment Expression Man Silly
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove

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