To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
ANATOLE FRANCEFor 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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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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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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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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