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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Anatole France

Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
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
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.
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Art Mindset Nature Purpose Satisfaction Teaching
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
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
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
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
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
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
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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
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
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
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

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

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