Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDE
Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Dare to be yourself.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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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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But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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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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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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