If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
ANATOLE FRANCEWandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
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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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To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything.
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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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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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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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