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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.

Anatole France

We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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Deep Dreams One Liner
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
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
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.
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End Life People
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
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
Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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Animal Believe Himself Logic Man Thinking
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread.
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Equality Food Poor Rich
If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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Beautiful Leadership Path
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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Death Endurance Nation Strength Survive
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we aren’t really living.
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Change Growth Live
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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Himself Kind Man
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Book Deep Devil God Religious Story Writing
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
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature

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