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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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God Himself Interesting Man Men Precious
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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One Liner Sin Soul
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Deep Man Reality Thinking
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome
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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Freedom Inspirational Oneself
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Capacity Freedom Motivational Task Work Hard
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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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Cherish Goodness Humanity Live Men
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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Enjoyment Flower Inspirational Summer
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Compliment Expression Man Silly
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Expectation Goodness Share Vice Virtue
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
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Achievement Depend God
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Concerntrate Essential Instant Irreplaceable Life Live
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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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Attempt Encouragement Impossible Motivational
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Contradict Fools One Liner Themselves
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen

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