The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
ANDRE GIDEIn other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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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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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
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The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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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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A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Art begins with resistance – at the point where resistance is overcome. No human masterpiece has ever been created without great labor.
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Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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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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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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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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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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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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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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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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