The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
ANATOLE FRANCEThe books that everybody admires are those that nobody reads.
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The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever.
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Armenia is dying, but it will survive. The little blood that is left is precious blood that will give birth to a heroic generation. A nation that does not want to die, does not die.
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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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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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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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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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If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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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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Stupidity is far more dangerous than evil, for evil takes a break from time to time, stupidity does not.
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All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
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Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.
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Dictionary: The universe in alphabetical order.
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Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.
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