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One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

Andre Gide

Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Attempt Encouragement Impossible Motivational
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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Answer Console Insult People
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Complete Giving Possess Prove
Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Age Old Youth
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Deep Man Reality Thinking
Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Die Fall Fish Motivational Rise Surface
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Expectation Goodness Share Vice Virtue
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Art Artist Collaboration God
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Horror Love Mankind Men
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Depression Fatigue Saf
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Deep Motivational Respect Rose Thorn Want
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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Life Live Obligation Truth

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

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