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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.

Anatole France

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
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 ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
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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Change Death Life Ourselves Sadness
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
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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