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

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
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
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
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
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
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
We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself

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

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