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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom

Anatole France

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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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  For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

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  A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

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  Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.

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  In art as in love, instinct is enough.

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  It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

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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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  Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.

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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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  All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy

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  It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

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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 human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

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  The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.

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  If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

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