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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.

Andre Gide

Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDE

Doubt Finding Trust Truth
The truth is that as soon as we are no longer obliged to earn our living, we no longer know what to do with our life and recklessly squander it.
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Life Live Obligation Truth
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Art Artist Collaboration God
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Compliment Expression Man Silly
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Death Kill Man Method Perfection Society
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDE

Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Except Objective Path Straight Travel
Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Envy Happiness Madness Man
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
ANDRE GIDE

Enjoyment Flower Inspirational Summer
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Man Reality Thinking
Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
ANDRE GIDE

Concerntrate Essential Instant Irreplaceable Life Live

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