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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Andre Gide

There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
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
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
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
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Art Artist Collaboration God
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Happiness Memories Past Prevention
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Close Door Inspirational Law Life Open
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
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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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
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
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

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

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