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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.

Andre Gide

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Adventure Believe Finding People Success
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
‘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
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
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
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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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Acceptance Change Evil Motivational Struggle Work
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
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
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
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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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad
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
Dare to be yourself.
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Be Yourself Dare One Liner
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing

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