Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDETrust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Dare to be yourself.
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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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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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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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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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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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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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Every instant of our lives is essentially irreplaceable: you must know this in order to concentrate on life.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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