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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy

Anatole France

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
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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Deep Forever Life Mortal
Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Animal Love Oneself Soul
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change 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
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
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Man Truth
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 ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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Character Man Truth
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
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
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 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
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon

All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy

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