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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

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
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
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
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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
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
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
As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.
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Discover Kind Truth
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
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth

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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