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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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Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
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
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
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
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
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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Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
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
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
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
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
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
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
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
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
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
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character 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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