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.
ANDRE GIDEMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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The color of truth is gray.
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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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