Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEMan 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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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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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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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