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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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It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor. – Andre Gide

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All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. – Johann von Goethe, The Sorrows of Young Werther, 1774

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