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In art as in love, instinct is enough.

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
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
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
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination 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
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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.
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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
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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End Life People
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner

In art as in love, instinct is enough.

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