Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
ANATOLE FRANCEIt is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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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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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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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