To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
ANDRE GIDETo 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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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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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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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found 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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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