It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
ANATOLE FRANCEOf all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
More Anatole France Quotes
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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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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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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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