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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.

Anatole France

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
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
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
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
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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
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
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
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth

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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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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