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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.

Anatole France

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
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
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
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
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
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
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
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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Commitment Difference Education Memories
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner

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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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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