It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

About André Gide

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André Paul Guillaume Gide (French: [ɑ̃dʁe pɔl ɡijom ʒid]; 22 November 1869 – 19 February 1951) was a French author whose writing spanned a wide variety of styles and topics. He was awarded the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature. Gide's career ranged from his beginnings in the symbolist movement to...

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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.

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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves—in finding themselves.

The most decisive actions of our life—I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future—are, more often than not, unconsidered.

Dare to be yourself.

Obtain from yourself all that makes complaining useless. No longer implore from others what you yourself can obtain.

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The skepticism of youth signals the beginning of a search for something actually worth trusting, both within one's own psyche and in the world. That's why teens, supposedly stuck in life's lost years, are often so unequivocal about what they love and what they hate, and so frustrated when they feel misunderstood. The adolescent spirit is not the spirit of the lost. It is the conviction that you are not lost—that wandering has a purpose, and that what you deserve more than anything is the freedom to walk awhile on your own path.

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We hate some persons because we do not know them; and we will not know them because we hate them.

—Charles Caleb Colton

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Wars teach us not to love our enemies, but to hate our allies.

—W. L. George

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I don't hate you. I don't think I ever really did. It was just anger. And once I faced it head-on, once I understood it, it dissipated.

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went

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I needed to hate someone and you're the one I love the most, so it fell on you.

—Gayle Forman in Where She Went

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