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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.

Anatole France

He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
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
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
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
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
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
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 the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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Equality Food Poor Rich
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
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
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
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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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching

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