Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
ANATOLE FRANCETo accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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It is not customary to love what one has
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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