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The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of the mind for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

Anatole France

To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
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
Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.
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Courage Divine Goodness Life Suffering Value Virtue
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
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
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools 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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Man Truth
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.
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Discover Kind Truth
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
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
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love

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