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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.

Anatole France

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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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
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
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
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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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
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
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
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
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness

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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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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