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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom

Anatole France

The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning
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 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
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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End Life People
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
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
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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
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
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Determination Dream Planning
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon

Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom

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