So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
ANDRE GIDEThe funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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