He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
ANDRE GIDEFish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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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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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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