Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEWe chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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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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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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