All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
ANATOLE FRANCEBut 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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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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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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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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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