Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDEEnvying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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The color of truth is gray.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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