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Determination. To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream. Not only plan, but also believe.

Anatole France

It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Collection Goodness Walk
Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Alone Oneself World
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Book Reading
In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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Art Enough Love
To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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Accomplishment Act Dream Greatness
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
Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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Sex Strange
Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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Break Danger Evil Stupidity Time

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