You have to let other people be right’ was his answer to their insults. ‘It consoles them for not being anything else.
ANDRE GIDEIt is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.
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Sadness is almost never anything but a form of fatigue.
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So long as we live among men, let us cherish humanity.
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Welcome everything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.
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Trust those who seek the truth but doubt those who say they have found it.
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Believe those who are seeking truth, doubt those who find it.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
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Complete possession is proved only by giving. All you are unable to give possesses you.
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I wished for nothing beyond her smile, and to walk with her thus, hand in hand, along a sun warmed, flower bordered path.
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The color of truth is gray.
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Sin is whatever obscures the soul.
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Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all.
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Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. It’s their way of falling.
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Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
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