Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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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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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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