All changes, even the most longed for, must have their melancholy
ANATOLE FRANCEIn art as in love, instinct is enough.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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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Without lies, humanity would perish of despair and boredom
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It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
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Our passions are ourselves.
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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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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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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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We have never heard the devil’s side of the story, God wrote all the book.
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All ought to be common among friends.
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The wonder is, not that the field of stars is so vast, but that man has measured it.
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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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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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The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal their bread.
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