One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDEFish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death.
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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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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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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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