All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is not customary to love what one has
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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