Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
ANDRE GIDEMan cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Too chaste a youth leads to a dissolute old age.
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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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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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I do not love men: I love what devours them.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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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 is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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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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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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