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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.

Andre Gide

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.
ANDRE GIDE

Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
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
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Life Live Obligation Truth
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Existence Faith Wisdom Yourself
Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Contradict Fools One Liner Themselves
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
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
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf
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
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Civilization One Liner Prejudice
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDE

Answer Console Insult People

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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