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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.

Anatole France

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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Discover Kind Truth
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
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
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
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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 not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie

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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