The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
ANDRE GIDEEverything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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