Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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