It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.
ANATOLE FRANCEIn art as in love, instinct is enough.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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In art as in love, instinct is enough.
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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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Whatever one may do, one is always alone in the world.
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Time deals gently only with those who take it gently.
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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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Of all sexual aberrations, chastity is the strangest.
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If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.
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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 should adopt his principles and govern men as they are and not as what we’d like them to be.
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People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them.
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Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.
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It is the certainty that they possess the truth that makes men cruel.
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It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.
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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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