Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Seize from every moment its unique novelty and do not prepare your joys.
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Dare to be yourself.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Nothing is so silly as the expression of a man who is being complimented.
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Fear of ridicule begets the worst cowardice.
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Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change.
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Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.
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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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In other people’s company I felt I was dull, gloomy, unwelcome, at once bored and boring.
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‘Therefore’ is a word the poet must not know.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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The funny thing about love is that it must continually grow or it will diminish.
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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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There is a law in life: when one door closes to us another one opens.
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A straight path never leads anywhere except to the objective.
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