The color of truth is gray.
ANDRE GIDEThe color of truth is gray.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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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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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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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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Please do not understand me too quickly.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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The capacity to get free is nothing; the capacity to be free is the task.
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Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
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Only fools don’t contradict themselves.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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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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He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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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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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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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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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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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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