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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.

Anatole France

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
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
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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Commitment Difference Education Memories
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Dream Greatness Planning
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
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
Science neither cares to please nor to displease. She is inhuman. It is not science but poetry that charms and consoles. And that is why poetry is more necessary than science.
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Care Human Necessary Poetry Science
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People

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