All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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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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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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