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"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
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"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the
shore."
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"Be faithful to that which exists within yourself."
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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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"Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason."
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"The color of truth is grey."
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"Do not do what someone else could do as well as you. Do not say, do not write what someone else could say, could write as well as you. Care for nothing in yourself but what you feel exists nowhere else. And, out of yourself create, impatiently or patiently, the most irreplaceable of beings.





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"Everything's already been said, but since nobody was listening, we have to start again."
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"One dosen't discover new lands without consenting to loose sight of the shore for a very long time."
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"I do not love men: I love what devours them."
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"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."
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"ose devenir qui tu es"
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"Envying another man's happiness is madness; you wouldn't know what to do with it if you had it."
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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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"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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"Je pars simplement pour partir, la surprise meme est mon but - l'imprevu - Comprennez-vous?"
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"The color of truth is gray."
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"God depends on us. It is through us that God is achieved."
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"The most decisive actions of our life - I mean those that are most likely to decide the whole course of our future - are, more often than not, unconsidered."
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"Jette mon livre; dis-toi bien que ce n'est là qu'une des mille postures possibles en face de la vie. Cherche la tienne. Ce qu'un autre aurait aussi bien fait que toi, ne le fais pas. Ce qu'un autre aurait aussi bien dit que toi, ne le dis pas, -- aussi bien écrit que toi, ne l'écris pas. Ne t'attache en toi qu'à ce que tu sens qui n'est nulle part ailleurs qu'en toi-même, et crée de toi, impatiemment ou patiemment, ah! le plus irremplaçable des êtres."
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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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"I am lost if I attempt to take count of chronology. When I think over the past, I am like a person whose eyes cannot properly measure distances and is liable to think things extremely remote which on examination prove to be quite near."
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"We cannot discover new oceans unless we have the courage to lose sight of the shore."
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"No hay problemas, solo soluciones."
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"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."
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"The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes."
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"Que toute émotion sache te devenir une ivresse. Si ce que tu manges ne te grise pas, c'est que tu n'avais pas assez faim."
André Gide (Les Nourritures Terrestres)
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"Then you think that one can keep a hopeless love in one's heart for so long as that?...And that life can breathe upon it every day, without extinguishing it?"
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"Ante ciertos libros, uno se pregunta: ¿quién los leerá? Y ante ciertas personas uno se pregunta: ¿qué leerán? Y al fin, libros y personas se encuentran."
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"Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured."
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"Martyr, c'est pourir un peu."
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it."
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"The loveliest creations of men are persistently painful. What would be the description of happiness?"
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"The truth is, I hoped the cure would dislike me. I tried to think of disagreeable things to say to him -- I could hit on nothing that wasn't charming. It's wonderful how hard I find it not to be fascinating."
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"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again"
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"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again"
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"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
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"It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
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""It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not."
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"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again"
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"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again"
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"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again"
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"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again"
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"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again"
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