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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.

Anatole France

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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Equality Food Law Poor Rich
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
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
Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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Enough Mindset People
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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
The history books which contain no lies are extremely tedious.
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Book History Lie
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
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
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
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Forever Life Man
We should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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Himself Principle

We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.

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