Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.

Quote by Andre Gide

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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age

Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever...

Art begins with resistance-at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever...

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in...

Of some forty families I have been able to observe, I know hardly four in...

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Courage is very important. Like a muscle, it is strengthened by use.

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image....

Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image....

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who...

The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who...

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece...

Art begins with resistance - at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece...

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your truth....

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your truth....

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in...

I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in...

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

Sin is whatever obscures the soul.

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at...

At times is it seems that I am living my life backward, and that at...

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written

It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written

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

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

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome

There is no prejudice that the work of art does not finally overcome

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved

God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and...

It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and...

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.