A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDESadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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