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The color of truth is gray.

Andre Gide

To know how to free oneself is nothing; the arduous thing is to know what to do with one’s freedom.
ANDRE GIDE

Freedom Inspirational Oneself
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
ANDRE GIDE

Fear Monster Warrant
Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
ANDRE GIDE

Depression Fatigue Saf
One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
ANDRE GIDE

Consent Discover Inspirational Lose Shore Sight Time
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
ANDRE GIDE

Gift Nature Perhaps
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.
ANDRE GIDE

Life Live Obligation Truth
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
ANDRE GIDE

Age Habit Live Resolution
I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
ANDRE GIDE

Beyond Flower Hands Love Path She Smile Warm
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
ANDRE GIDE

Optimism Profound Torture
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
ANDRE GIDE

Poet Words Writing
In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
ANDRE GIDE

Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
ANDRE GIDE

Complete Giving Possess Prove
Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
ANDRE GIDE

Joy Moments Preparation Unique
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
ANDRE GIDE

Love Positive Reason Wisdom
It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
ANDRE GIDE

Adventure Believe Finding People Success
A man thinks he owns things, and it is he who is owned.
ANDRE GIDE

Deep Man Reality Thinking

The color of truth is gray.

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