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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Anatole France

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
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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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.
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Book Library Myself 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
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
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.
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Commitment Difference Education Memories
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
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
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price

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