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

Anatole France

All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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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Equality Food Poor Rich
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
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
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
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
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

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