Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
ANDRE GIDETo know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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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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Envying another man’s happiness is madness; you wouldn’t know what to do with it if you had it.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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