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

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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Courage Discover Inspirational Lose Man Ocean Risk Shore Sight
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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Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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Answer Console Insult People
Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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One Liner Sin Soul
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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Achievement Depend God
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Acceptance Change Evil Motivational Struggle Work
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
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
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
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
There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Close Door Inspirational Law Life Open
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
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant

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

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