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 FRANCEMan is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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