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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

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
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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Eat Himself Man Old See Truth
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
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

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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