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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.

Anatole France

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
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
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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Discover Kind Truth
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
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
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
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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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching

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