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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.
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Freedom Inspirational Oneself
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
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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Beautiful Difficult Discover Embrace Important Joy Moral Obligation Sad
Nothing is more fatal to happiness than the remembrance of happiness.
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Fatal Happiness Remember
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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Life Live Obligation Truth
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Deep Motivational Respect Rose Thorn Want
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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Answer Console Insult People
There are many things that seem impossible only so long as one does not attempt them.
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Attempt Encouragement Impossible Motivational
Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Doubt Finding Trust Truth
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Love Positive Reason Wisdom
The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Capacity Freedom Motivational Task Work Hard
Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does, the better.
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Art Artist Collaboration God
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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Art Human Labor Masterpiece Overcome Resistance
Prejudices are the props of civilization.
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Civilization One Liner Prejudice
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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Company Ideas Reading Travel Writer
The color of truth is gray.
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Color Gray One Liner Truth

The color of truth is gray.

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