Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
ANDRE GIDEWhat 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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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