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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.

Anatole France

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
All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Change Sadness
It is not customary to love what one has
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Love Oneself
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
Man is summed up in Art. All the rest is moonshine.
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Art Man Moon
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
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Fools People
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
Nine tenths of education is encouragement.
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Education Encouragement
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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Death Price Willing
All ought to be common among friends.
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Fame Friendship
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
People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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People Weakness
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
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
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

Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.

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