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.
ANATOLE FRANCEIf 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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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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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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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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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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