We chase dreams and embrace shadows.
ANATOLE FRANCEAll the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.
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Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another.
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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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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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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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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we yearn for another that will be eternal.
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To accomplish great things, we must dream as well as act.
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To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.
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The books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
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Awaken people’s curiosity. It is enough to open minds, do not overload them. Put there just a spark.
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