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"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it."
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"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."

"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."

"My truth could be very different than your truth."

"I see the truth in people because they can see the truth in me."

"The truth can do years of work in seconds."

"The Scripture is never subjected to one's own interpretations."
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"Through loyalty to the past, our mind refuses to realize that tomorrow's joy is possible only if today's makes way for it; that each wave owes the beauty of its line only to the withdrawal of the preceding one."

"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."

"It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves."

"In hell there is no other punishment than to begin over and over again the tasks left unfinished in your lifetime."

"Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all."

"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."
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