Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDEEverything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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The color of truth is gray.
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We should enjoy this summer, flower by flower, as if it were to be the last one we’ll see.
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The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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