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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.

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
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
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
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
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
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
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
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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Eat Himself Man Old See 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

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