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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.

Anatole France

If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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End Life People
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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Himself Myself Touch World
As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Discover Kind Truth
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing

But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.

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But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.

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