Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
ANDRE GIDEIt is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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Dare to be yourself.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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