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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.

Anatole France

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
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
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
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
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
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time
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
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
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
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
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
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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Himself Principle
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature

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