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• To love the truth is to refuse to let oneself be saddened by it.

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  Truth, Saddened, Refuse

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• Throw away my book: you must understand that it represents only one of a thousand attitudes. You must find your own. If someone else could have done something as well as you, don’t do it. If someone else could have said something as well as you, don’t say it—or written something as well as you, don’t write it. Grow fond only of that which you can find nowhere but in yourself, and create out of yourself, impatiently or patiently, ah! that most irreplaceable of beings.

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  Attitude, Book, Writing

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• Only fools don't contradict themselves

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  Fool

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• It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle.

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  Life, Work, Failure

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• Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.

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  Sadness, Self Pity, Misery

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• Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

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  Memories, Adversity, Problem

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• I can't expect others to share my virtues. It's good enough for me if they share my vices.

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  Vices, Virtue, Good Enough

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• Clear and precise ideas are the most dangerous, for one does not dare to change them.

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  Ideas, Doe, Dare

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• A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned

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  Men, Thinking

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• Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.

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  Order, Life Is, Irreplaceable

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• We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.

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  Summer, Flower, Lasts

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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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  Freedom, Liberty, Know How

  Andre Gide (2015). “The Immoralist”, p.8, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.

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  Doors, Law

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• Christianity, above all, consoles; but there are naturally happy souls who do not need consolation. Consequently Christianity begins by making such souls unhappy, for otherwise it would have no power over them.

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  Christian, Soul, Atheism

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• Understand that the only possession of any value is life.

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  Possession, Values

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• The scholar seeks truth, the artist finds.

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  Truth, Lying, Artist

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• Man's responsibility increases as that of the gods decreases.

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  Responsibility, Power, Men

  "Voodoo Science". Book by Robert L.Park, p. 31,

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• The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

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  Bores You, Annoyed, Literature

  The journals, 1889-1949. Vol 2. (p. 20), 1956.

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• It is with fine sentiments that bad literature is made. Descend to the bottom of the well if you wish to see the stars.

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  Stars, Wish, Literature

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• It is often so: the harder it is to hear, the more a truth is worth saying.

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  Truth Is, Harder

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• The wise man is he who constantly wonders afresh.

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  Wise, Men, Wonder

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• Each of us really understands in others only those feelings he is capable of producing himself.

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  Understanding, Feelings, Capable

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• Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it.

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  Men, Madness, Knows

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• Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

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  Men, Society, Subtle

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• Generally among intelligent people are found nothing but paralytics and among men of action nothing but fools.

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  Intelligent, Men, People

  Andre Gide (2017). “Pretexts: Reflections on Literature and Morality”, p.275, Routledge

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