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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.

Anatole France

But I deny that He created the world; at the most He organised but an inferior part of it, and all that He touched bears the mark of His rough and unforeseeing touch.
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Himself Myself Touch World
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
Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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Humanity Lie
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
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
To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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Imagination One Liner
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People Truth
A person is never happy except at the price of some ignorance.
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Exception Happiness Ignorance Person Price
Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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Establishment Existence Man Nature
When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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Talk Word
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 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
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
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness

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