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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

Andre Gide

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDE

Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Compliment Expression Man Silly
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
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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Life Live Obligation Truth
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDE

Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
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.
ANDRE GIDE

Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDE

Existence Faith Wisdom Yourself
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDE

Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDE

Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Beget Coward Fear One Liner Worse
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
ANDRE GIDE

Civilization One Liner Prejudice
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
ANDRE GIDE

Depression Fatigue Saf

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