It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDESociety knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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