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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for som

It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. – Andre Gide

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The young people who come to me in the hope of hearing me utter a few memorable maxims are quite disappointed. Aphorisms are not my forte, I say nothing but banalities…. I listen to them and they go away delighted. – Andre Gide

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Listening
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Art is the collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. – Andre Gide

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Art
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It is easier to lead men to combat, stirring up their passion, than to restrain them and direct them toward the patient labors of peace. – Andre Gide

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Men
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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. – Homer

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We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. – Kurt Vonnegut

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The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another. – James Matthew Barrie

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When one is pretending the entire body revolts. – Anaïs Nin

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I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender. – Abba Eban

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