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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Andre Gide

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
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
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
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
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
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
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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Life Live Obligation Truth
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Cherish Goodness Humanity Live Men
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Happiness Memories Past Prevention
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.
ANDRE GIDE

Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
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
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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Freedom Inspirational Oneself
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Capacity Freedom Motivational Task Work Hard
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

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