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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.

Anatole France

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
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
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
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
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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Himself Principle
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
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Commitment Difference Education Memories
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
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie

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