He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
ANDRE GIDESin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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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 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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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