Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
ANDRE GIDEWork and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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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 most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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