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

Anatole France

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
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
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
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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Equality Food Poor Rich
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
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
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
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
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
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
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People

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