There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
ANDRE GIDEFear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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