It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDEIn other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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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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Dare to be yourself.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find 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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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