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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

Anatole France

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
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
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
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
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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
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 Dream Greatness Planning
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth

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