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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

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
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
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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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Goodness Love Man Sin Writing
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
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
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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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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