An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
ANATOLE FRANCEOf all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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 the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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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 changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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He would not stoop even to pick up the old manuscript I am going to seek with so much trouble and fatigue. And in truth man is made rather to eat ices than to pore over old texts.
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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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