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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

Andre Gide

In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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Bore Company Dull Feeling Gloom People Welcome
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
He who wants a rose must respect her thorn.
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Deep Motivational Respect Rose Thorn Want
Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Beget Coward Fear One Liner Worse
Poverty makes a slave out of men. In order to eat he will accept work that gives no pleasure.
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Acceptance Giving Pleasure Poverty Slave
But can one still make resolutions when one is over forty? I live according to twenty-year-old habits.
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Age Habit Live Resolution
There are very few monsters who warrant the fear we have of them.
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Fear Monster Warrant
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
The most gifted natures are perhaps also the most trembling.
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Gift Nature Perhaps
Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Attachment Life Welcome
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
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Beginning Healing Inspirational Listen
Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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Optimism Profound Torture
I can’t expect others to share my virtues. It’s good enough for me if they share my vices.
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Expectation Goodness Share Vice Virtue
A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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Except Objective Path Straight Travel
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
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Beautiful Madness Reason Writing
‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Poet Words Writing

Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.

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