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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.

Anatole France

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
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
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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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
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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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
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
We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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Himself Principle
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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Equality Food Poor Rich
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner

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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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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