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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.

Anatole France

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
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
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
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
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
Determination. 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 Determination Dream Planning
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Book Library Myself People
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
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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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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Himself Principle

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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