The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRE GIDEThere is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
More Andre Gide Quotes
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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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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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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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Dare to be yourself.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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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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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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