Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
ANDRE GIDEMan is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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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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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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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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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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