Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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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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It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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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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To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.
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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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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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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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It is not customary to love what one has
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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