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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 wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Deep Man Stars
It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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Act Ideas Live People
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
Our passions are ourselves.
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One Liner Ourselves Passion
It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
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Act Human Nature Thinking Wisdom
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
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
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
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Book One Liner
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
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
Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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Deal Time
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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