A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
ANATOLE FRANCEA person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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It is not customary to love what one has
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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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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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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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