The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDEGod depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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The color of truth is gray.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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