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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

Anatole France

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
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
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

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