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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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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
What can be more foolish than to think that all this rare fabric of heaven and earth could come by chance?
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Chance Earth Heaven Stupidity Thinking
Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.
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Accomplishment Act Believe Determination Dream Planning
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
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
I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Difference Myself Wisdom
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
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 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 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
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
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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
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
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
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk

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