The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll 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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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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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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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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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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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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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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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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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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