You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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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