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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Anatole France

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
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
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
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
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
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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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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Equality Food Poor Rich
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion

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