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

Andre Gide

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
What would a narrative of happiness be like? All that can be described is what prepares it, and then what destroys it.
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Destroy Happiness Narrative Preparation
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Motivational Respect Rose Thorn Want
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
ANDRE GIDE

Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
ANDRE GIDE

Believe Doubt Finding Seek Truth
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Man Reality Thinking
To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
ANDRE GIDE

Freedom Inspirational Oneself
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Beget Coward Fear One Liner Worse
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove
God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
ANDRE GIDE

Achievement Depend God
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
ANDRE GIDE

Be Yourself Deep Hate Love
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDE

Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.
ANDRE GIDE

Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDE

Gift Nature Perhaps
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDE

Adventure Believe Finding People Success

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

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