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

Anatole France

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
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
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
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
But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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Himself Myself Touch World
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
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
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 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools 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
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

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