In art as in love, instinct is enough.
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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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 the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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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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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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