Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
ANDRE GIDEFear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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