All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
ANATOLE FRANCEMan is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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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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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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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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All ought to be common among friends.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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