I do not love men: I love what devours them.
ANDRE GIDEHe who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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