It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
ANATOLE FRANCEPeople who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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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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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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