Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRE GIDEBe faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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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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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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