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A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

Anatole France

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
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
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.
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Desire Forever Man Past Regret Young
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
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
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
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
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth

A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.

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